The Idiot
24 hrs. 46 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Author
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Narrator
Vsevolod Kuznetsov
Narrator
Vsevolod Kuznetsov
Description
Prince Myshkin—the main character of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s famous novel “The Idiot”—brings people a sermon of compassion, forgiveness, mercy, and brotherhood. Yet his hopes collapse: “the cross brother” Rogozhin becomes the killer, and “the beauty” Nastasya Filippovna dies… And still, without people like the prince, the world would not exist. “He only touched their lives,” Dostoevsky writes, “but wherever he touched them, he left an untraceable mark.”
Such rich storylines are always “fated” to cause an automatic sense of presence in the reader. The secret lies not only—perhaps not even so much—in the twists and turns of events, but in the brilliantly drawn characters and the electric charges between them.
All these elements together turn the “sense of presence” into an “effect of participation”: as you immerse yourself in the novel, you first become an invisible witness to events, and then you grow so close to the main character that you begin to see through his eyes and measure his world by the beating of your own heart. And then the key question arises: how to survive in a world that seemed fictional and suddenly becomes so real—and how not to lose your mind here.
In the end, can society determine the degree of someone’s “normality”? Who among us is Prince Myshkin, after all?
Such rich storylines are always “fated” to cause an automatic sense of presence in the reader. The secret lies not only—perhaps not even so much—in the twists and turns of events, but in the brilliantly drawn characters and the electric charges between them.
All these elements together turn the “sense of presence” into an “effect of participation”: as you immerse yourself in the novel, you first become an invisible witness to events, and then you grow so close to the main character that you begin to see through his eyes and measure his world by the beating of your own heart. And then the key question arises: how to survive in a world that seemed fictional and suddenly becomes so real—and how not to lose your mind here.
In the end, can society determine the degree of someone’s “normality”? Who among us is Prince Myshkin, after all?
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