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Title: The Idiot (Oxford World's Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Alan Myers ISBN: 0-19-283411-8 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.54 (63 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: By far, the best book I've read
Comment: Dostoyevsky is the master of the art of creating the character. All his characters have a distinct personality, each of them behaving in a certain way, until you truly feel for those characters. But in The Idiot, things are different. You see the corruption of the people through the eyes of the innocent and loveable Prince Myshkin. But Myshkin is seen as an 'Idiot' because of his true kindness. Only the strong can survive in this world, or so it seems. The character of Hippolite is also a truly great character, as well as Rogozhin. Not a word should ever be changed from this awesome novel. Read it, change your view on life.
Rating: 4
Summary: Don't trust Society!
Comment: I always write my thoughts on the literature after it comes to its conclusion. It is a worthwhile practice and it may, perhaps, benefit you. For the Idiot: Nice guys do indeed finish last! (As one reviewer has already contributed) Again, suffering in apparent in this Dostoevsky novel. Prince Myshkin suffers by actually having qualities which we think would be blessings - actual intelligence and honest kindness. Myshkin starts our story as an "idiot," and he makes the journey to Russia (or Society with all it's evils and negatives - ego's that are impossible for one to actually be satisfied with, unrequited love, pride, greed, etc.,). And the story ends with Myshkin dying in the same Society of people, yet geographically he's in Europe. Nevertheless, he starts as an "idiot" and ends as an "idiot." He is Christ-like in that 1.)he is the sacrafice for acquantinces like Mrs. Epanchin, so that they may see the negatives of their Society 2.) He dies young as Christ did. Christ came to Earth to save but then he went to Heaven---Myshkin came to save a certain Russian society but he did his "leaving" elsewhere (Europe). This is a wonderful read and I know I'm not the best reviewer, but sharing comments on books is productive, as is reading them - flipping the T.V. remote is not. Carpe Diem.
Rating: 5
Summary: A beauty of a book ...always timely
Comment: I read this book for the first time when I was 15 or 16, and promptly declared it my favorite book. When I read it again in my 30s, it rang even more true. The society in this book is not so different from ours, obsessed with money, beauty, social standing, celebrity, and so forth. People are restless, flawed, seeking peace, while at the same time self-hating, self-destructive, and seeking out danger. What happens to this perfectly good, loving, honest human being, Myshkin, comes to seem inevitable given what we know about human nature, then and now.
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Title: Crime and Punishment (Crime & Punishment) by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett ISBN: 0553211757 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 June, 1984 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Brothers Karamazov by FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY, Konstanfin Mochulski ISBN: 0553212168 Publisher: Bantam Classics Pub. Date: 01 April, 1984 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Notes from Underground (Vintage Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Richard Pevear ISBN: 067973452X Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 September, 1994 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: War and Peace (Penguin Classics) by Leo Tolstoy ISBN: 0140444173 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1982 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Devils : The Possessed by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, David Magarshack ISBN: 0140440356 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1954 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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