Prince Myshkin, a good yet simple man, is out of place in the corrupt world created by Russia's ruling class.
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Best translation of a simply great book,
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This review is from: The Idiot (Penguin Classics) (Mass Market Paperback)
No point in my laboring here. Having read several translations of this masterpiece, and David Magarshack's effort at least a half dozen times, the Penguin Classics is my favorite. As for the novel, well it simply annihilates the attentive reader. The most wrenching treatment of love, hate, passion to the point of self destruction, this is a terribly funny book in parts, and Magarshack captures the humor beautifully. Torrential conversations, several beautiful women, and the greatest birthday party ever committed to print, there is also a murder(of course, it's Dostoyevsky!). Hallucinogenic passages alternate with passages of great wit, generosity and unbearable truths about being human. This book is a monster and will change your life. My Old and New Testaments, in one volume, at a great price. Get it and believe!!
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The struggle of innocence,
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This review is from: The Idiot (Penguin Classics) (Mass Market Paperback)
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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Inspirational...,
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This review is from: The Idiot (Penguin Classics) (Mass Market Paperback)
The Idiot is one of the most fascinating works ever produced, ever discovered. It presents a portrait of the paragon of perfection in human terms, a portrait the reader loves and envies, but one that we invite to the soul of our souls. The reader is inspired to aspire to become the Idiot. It is is a magical pill that, once swallowed, is medicine for our souls. The Idiot and the novel that revolves around him are "inspiration" epitomised.
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