The Idiot
40 hrs. 46 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Author
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Narrator
Vyacheslav Manylov
Narrator
Vyacheslav Manylov
Description
Prince Myshkin, the main character of F. M. Dostoevsky’s famous novel “The Idiot,” preaches compassion, forgiveness, mercy, and brotherhood to people. But his hopes collapse: Rogozhin becomes the murderer of his “cross brother,” Nastassya Filippovna’s “beauty” dies… And yet, without people like the prince, the world does not exist. “He only touched their lives,” Dostoevsky writes. “But wherever he touched them—everywhere he left an untraceable mark.”
Such rich plots are always “doomed” to trigger in the reader an automatic sense of presence. The secret lies not only—and not even so much—in the twists and turns of events, but in the magnificently drawn characters and the electric sparks between them.
The sum of all the ingredients turns the effect 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 see through his eyes and measure his world by the beating of your own heart. And then the main question arises: how to survive in a world that seemed fictional and suddenly became so real—and how not to go mad here.
In the end, can society determine the degree of someone’s “normality”? After all, who among us is Prince Myshkin?
Such rich plots are always “doomed” to trigger in the reader an automatic sense of presence. The secret lies not only—and not even so much—in the twists and turns of events, but in the magnificently drawn characters and the electric sparks between them.
The sum of all the ingredients turns the effect 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 see through his eyes and measure his world by the beating of your own heart. And then the main question arises: how to survive in a world that seemed fictional and suddenly became so real—and how not to go mad here.
In the end, can society determine the degree of someone’s “normality”? After all, who among us is Prince Myshkin?
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