Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Idiot was a 2018 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Fiction. [6] According to the literary review aggregator Book Marks, the novel received mostly positive reviews from critics. [7] Writing for The New York Times, Dwight Garner describes how "Each paragraph is a small anthology of well-made observations."
The Idiot (pre-reform Russian: Идіотъ; post-reform Russian: Идиот, romanized: Idiót) is a novel by the 19th-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published serially in the journal The Russian Messenger in 1868–1869.
According to the literary review aggregator Book Marks, the novel received mostly "rave" and "positive" review from critics. [3] In a positive review for The New York Times, Dwight Garner wrote that, "This novel wins you over in a million micro-observations" and that Batuman "has written about herself, or something very close to herself, in incremental, almost diaristic form, like an oyster ...
Elif Batuman (born 1977) is an American author, academic, and journalist. [1] She is the author of three books: a memoir, The Possessed, and the novels The Idiot, which was a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and Either/Or.
The Idiot, a 1914 drama film starring Robert Harron; The Idiots, a 1998 Danish film by Lars von Trier; Adapted from the Dostoevsky novel The Idiot, a 1946 French film by Georges Lamoin; The Idiot, a 1951 Japanese film by Akira Kurosawa; The Idiot, a 1958 Russian film by Ivan Pyryev
Opus 100 is a collection by American writer and scientist Isaac Asimov.It was published by Houghton Mifflin on 16 October 1969. Asimov chose to celebrate the publication of his hundredth book by writing about his previous 99 books, including excerpts from short stories and novels, as well as nonfiction articles and books.
"The Idiot Boy" is a poem written by William Wordsworth, a representative of the Romantic movement in English literature. The poem was composed in spring 1798 [ 1 ] and first published in the same year in Lyrical Ballads , a collection of poems written by Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge , which is considered to be a turning point in the ...
Science fiction writer and critic Damon Knight, in his 1956 collection In Search of Wonder, says that the term may have originated with author James Blish. [1]: 26 Knight went on to coin the term second-order idiot plot as a narrative "in which not merely the principals, but everybody in the whole society has to be a grade-A idiot, or the story couldn't happen".