Idiot

About This Novel

Prince Myshkin, who suffers from epilepsy, returns to St. Petersburg from Switzerland. Unexpectedly, he is involved in a sinful transaction of money, power and sex. The upper class laughed at the Duke's naivety and gullibility, calling him an "idiot". Blackmail, betrayal, and murder surrounded him from then on. An idiot is like a mirror, seeing the truth behind everyone's disguise, and believes that "beauty can save the world." The beautiful woman who had been raised and sexually assaulted since she was a child made him obsessed and painful. He saw through her pure nature beneath her perverse appearance, and tried to save her with love, but it seemed to accelerate her self-destructive fate... "The Idiot" is a representative work of Dostoevsky's literary maturity. Before the perfection of modern psychology, the author used this literary work to prophetically explore the human unconscious. Those who are sick, crazy, and deviant reveal the inescapable chaos and irrationality of human thinking. The kind, docile idiot who loves all mankind is the embodiment of the author's philanthropic ideal. His tragedy may be the failure of an idealist, but the human pursuit of loving and being loved will always exist.

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