Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Idiot
Unabridged
1 day 58 minutes
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'I know for sure that if I had two or three secure years for this novel... I would write a work that they would talk about for a hundred years.' So said Dostoyevsky as he struggled to bring The Idiot into existence, and sure enough it has lasted longer than the hundred years he predicted. In his creation of Prince Myshkin, The Idiot, a character seeking perfection and yet fraught with ambiguity, Dostoyevsky anticipated the universal metaphysical unease of succeeding generations, and produced an unforgettable masterpiece.
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