The Idiot (selected Collections of Dostoevsky)
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"The Idiot" is a novel written by the 19th-century Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky. The novel describes Nastasia, a stunning woman from a noble family in the 1860s, who has been ravaged by the landowner Totsky for many years. Later, Totsky was willing to pay a large sum of money to marry her to the despicable Ganya. At the heroine's birthday party, the young Duke Myshkin, who was regarded as an idiot by people, suddenly appeared and was willing to marry Nastasiya unconditionally, which moved her deeply. On the day of her upcoming wedding to the Duke, although she loved the Duke deeply, she ran away with the playboy Rogozhin. Finally, he was killed by Rogozhin. The novel gives a broad description of the Russian upper class after the serfdom reform and involves complex psychological and moral issues. The work expresses that the world cannot be quantified rationally, and is even beyond human imagination. What is inexplicable and unachievable by humans does not require thinking, and those who think about it and practice it are "idiots". This should be a perfect irony of the belief advocated by many Enlightenment thinkers that "man's logical calculations must conform to the laws of nature, and human calculations are equal to heaven's calculations." This kind of logic that overly believes that the world can be calculated and excludes all contradictions and willful movements is actually the arrogance of human beings.
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