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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."
Reviewing the book for The New York Times, critic Dwight Garner praised the "winsome and infectious delight she feels in the presence of literary genius and beauty." [ 3 ] Batuman’s novel The Idiot is partly based on her own experiences attending Harvard in the mid-1990s and teaching English in Hungary in the summer of 1996. [ 9 ]
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Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin (pre-reform Russian: князь Левъ Николаевичъ Мышкинъ; post-reform Russian: князь Лев Николаевич Мышкин, romanized: knyazʹ Lev Nikoláyevich Mýshkin) is the main protagonist of Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1869 novel The Idiot.
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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 ...