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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."
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.
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]
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 ...
There is however no question as to the works themselves. They were all written in Latin, and have been translated at least to Dutch in 1535, [1] and to Spanish by 1550 [2] In the edition of his works published in Paris in the year 1654 we have the following collection: — six books of "Meditations"; a "Treatise on the Blessed Virgin"; a "Treatise on the Religious Life"; and the "Spiritual 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
The Idiot (Japanese: 白痴, Hepburn: Hakuchi) is a 1951 Japanese film directed by Akira Kurosawa from a screenplay co-written with Eijirō Hisaita . It is based on the 1869 novel The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky. [3] The original 265-minute version of the film, faithful to the novel, has been long lost.