idiot

Dostoyevsky represents a basic threshold that must be reached for the reader of literature anywhere in the world. The novel in your hands, dear reader, The Idiot, is classified with the rest of Dostoyevsky''s major novels as one of the most important fictional works of the golden age of Russian literature. Dostoyevsky first published his novel "The Idiot" as a serial in the literary magazine The Russian Messenger in 1868-1869. "Idiot" is an adjective that refers to the mistake of the main protagonist, the good young Prince Myshkin, whose kindness and open heart to life and people lead some characters to consider him an "idiot" who lacks intelligence and who can be deceived and played with as the players and deceivers want, but the course of events surprises everyone. The novel "The Idiot" has been classified by critics and novel historians as a philosophical novel. But it is the philosophy that is read on several levels, so that everyone understands and enjoys it, and leaves in them a sermon, a lesson, and a lesson learned, regardless of their differences. As for the British writer and philosopher Anthony Grayling, he described the novel "The Idiot" as "without question, one of the greatest books ever written."