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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.
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."
Either/Or is the second novel from Turkish American writer Elif Batuman. [1] The novel is a bildungsroman, continuing the story of Selin, the narrator of Batuman's first novel The Idiot, in her second year at Harvard University. The title is borrowed from Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard's first published work. [2]
As a polyphonic novel each character in The Idiot has a unique voice and perspective in relation to the action and the other actors. As such every scene is a dramatic convergence of multiple independent voices and perspectives rather than simply being a monological recounting of the event by a narrator.
Appeared in the same notebook as The Idiot, suggesting that it is an additional text to that novel. The protagonist has similar traits as Prince Myshkin . The main influence is Mikhail Semevsky 's work about the life of Ivan VI from 1740 to 1764, a part of Russkaya Starina .
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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.