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Matthew posted a review at 2009-11-11 19:57:32.
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I am now fully convinced that the reading of Dostoyevsky is best appreciated in the there-after, instead of the present-time. That said, this novel is a melodramatic and overzealous pairings and sparings among a large (although extremely well developed) set of characters---"frenemies," if you will....ugh. However, it is the complexities in trying to decipher Dostoyevsky's symbolizism of the "idiot" (who is one really, why, how, and for what purpose in society) that one gets the shocking breadth of this immense work in the there-after.
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Tiniko posted a review at 2009-10-21 06:18:40.
(Language: English)
I felt myself an idiot when reading it, the last novel I like with Dostoevsky :(
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Michelle posted a review at 2009-10-12 04:34:52.
(Language: English)
This book is unputdownable.I first read it over easter and was infuriated that people kept wanting to interrupt me and talk to me. The story is moving, and the protagonist as like able as the other characters are not. What sort of society has no room for a well-meaning idiot?
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stephanie posted a review at 2009-10-01 21:31:16.
(Language: Spanish)
fff
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A reader posted a review at 2009-09-27 13:42:39.
(Language: English)
Dostoevsky's attempt to portray the "good" man and society's effect on him. Myshkin ends up being outside society, unable to relate to its triviality.
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Koravos posted a review at 2009-09-03 15:37:35.
(Language: English)
I think this was the most boring book I have ever read in my entire life. The plot was soooo slow, the psychological analyses so naive and so self - centered, the situations so unreal and unconvincing.... How on earth is this considered a masterpiece of world literature? I read it after Dickens' "Bleak House" and the difference was striking. Sorry, but I find "the Idiot" a badly- written book, and extremely overrated.
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Joe posted a review at 2009-07-28 10:02:36.
(Language: English)
This was an amazing story...about Jesus in Russia.
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A reader posted a review at 2009-07-18 11:43:22.
(Language: English)
slow, like many russian novels, but still a very intriguing book
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Lyubava posted a review at 2009-06-30 21:50:37.
(Language: English)
You don't know what is going to happen till the very last chapter of this book. However, the setting, mood, characters with overall writing style, prepares reader for a tragic, as opposed to positive outcome.
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A reader posted a review at 2009-06-18 06:45:42.
(Language: English)
The amount of tension that Dostoyevsky creates is almost breathtaking. There is a particular section of the book in the fist part - it is a build up to the stabbing by Rogozhin in which Myshkin is merely immersed in his own thoughts, yet you can personally feel the emotional drama and no suspense writer has ever created a more pulsating few pages. There are many such scenes, particularly the ones involving Nastasia Phillipovna, Rogozhin and Ippolit( his entire character still remains an enigma to me) where tension is spurred on just by dialogue. At the end of it I felt that I had truly read a Great Book. The feeling was one of awful discomfort, almost horror but that's what realist fiction is like.
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