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Summary: Short Story of Morbid Fey Boy Drawn Out for 700 Extra Pages
Review: This is the worst thing Dostoevsky ever wrote. Prince Myushkin was an adorable figure, but without a plot, who cares? This book was obviously written for serial publication with Dostoevsky being paid by the word.
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Summary: Overwhelmingly depressing yet phenomenal
Review: Not my favorite of Dostoevsky's but that may be because it even more than others ends differently than I desired. Once again I was amazed by his use of seemingly psychotic characters that in fact strike me as being incredibly accurate depictions of common persons. This author and this book move me more than any other. Everyone should have a copy.
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Summary: Tragic but truthful
Review: Owen Meany, Holden Caulfeld, Zorba (the greek) and Dostoevsky's Prince Myshkin are characters one will *never* forget. This book changed the way i looked at christ. See what it's like to be a child again.
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Summary: The struggle of innocence
Review: Prince Myshkin is the person we all want to be, and that at one point we have tried to be, only to be defeated and driven into solitude by the world around us..or driven into mediocracy by joining it.
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Summary: This is the best book I have ever read.
Review: I think this is very interesting book .Dostoevski is describing how perfectly clean soals can't survive on this planet.I recomend it to everyone.
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Summary: An exceptional book
Review: This is probably one of the five most important books in my life. I sincerely believe that reading it will make anyone a better person. This is, by far, Dostoyesvkys' proudest achievement.
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Summary: Innocence's tragedy & power has never been better described
Review: The three books that have had the greatest impact on my life are The Bible, The Idiot and Les Miserables. The tragedy of Myshkin's innocence and yet its ability to shake to the core this aristocratic society (plug in any era you wish) is both a supreme goal and warning. This is not a book to read for literature (although it certainly is a great example) but for questionning what it means to be in the world and not of the world.
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Summary: Russian Literature meets daytime drama!
Review: The honesty, emotion, and innocence of the epileptic "idiot" Prince Myshkin are like a poison which rankles beneath the smooth veneer of respectable nineteenth-century Russian society and eventually erupts in enough scandals and tragedies to fill several weeks of the most turbulent daytime drama series. With ardent love, passionate hatred, obsession, cruelty, revenge, money, marriage, madness, murder, a mistress, a virgin, a secret rendezvous, and a groom left standing at the altar, Dostoevsky provides material worthy of the most melodramatic TV potboiler.This novel is no candidate for a mid-afternoon soap slot, however. Extended commercial breaks for philosophical broadcasts on topics as diverse as religion, death, patriotism, and nobility require the reader's patience. More importantly, if Dostoevsky's outrageous characters tend to emote like overzealous actors, they do not inhabit a diverting but comfortably remote fantasy world. Instead, they are set against a background of more self-controlled characters who do not lose sight of social standards and accepted everyday behaviors. However, the expectations of society so often contradict the characters' most sincere, passionate, and even generous impulses that the reader is left to wonder which set of characters is more realistically human and which set is doing the acting
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Summary: one of F.D.'s most tedious....
Review: Not one of Dostoyevsky's greatest works. An interesting character study, but not much else. A few of the characters are incredibly haunting, the plot is clever, but the actual narrative and story organization leave MUCH to be desired
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Summary: Fascinating!!!
Review: Dostoevsky's fascinating tale about a man that everyone needs, but nobody admits to needing, is a definite must-read. Based on the orthodox Russian idea: What if Jesus didn't know he was the Messiah until the very end
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