Ready to dive into Dostoevsky but don’t know where to start? This beginner’s guide breaks down his most compelling works—from the tender White Nights to the intense Crime & Punishment—helping you ...

In “The Idiot,” Prince Myshkin, the title character, says that “beauty would save the world.” He doesn’t just mean that which you can see; he’s also referring to goodness. It’s an ...

Like the Yepanchin family is raptured by Prince Myshkin’s stories in Fyodor Doestovoeky’s The Idiot, Rosi is equally awestruck by Pillai’s acumen and recommendations. Zacharia’s characters ...

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In The Idiot, the protagonist, Prince Myshkin, embodies sincerity, goodness and innocence. His purity and naivety place him in stark contrast with the society he inhabits, which is marked by ...

One key difference: Florian is studiedly asexual, and to that extent like Prince Myshkin in Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot. Florian is a conundrum, a potentially lethal naïf, a dangerous innocent.

The courtroom is a place of speech.” In his closing speech, Kiejman calls Goldman a Dostoyevskian hero, Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment or Prince Myshkin in The Idiot, alluding to the undeniable ...

If Don Giovanni was darkness, then the good Prince Myshkin of Weinberg’s opera was light, so compassionate and caring that he is considered an idiot. Both are strangers in their worlds, perhaps ...

from romantic action comedies like “Maasilamani” to period pieces such as “Madrasapattinam,” and critically acclaimed projects like Myshkin’s crime thriller “Yudham Sei.” Notable ...

Prince Myshkin, the holy fool of the opera’s title, returns to the savagely manipulative intrigues of St Petersburg society after a purifying stint at a Swiss sanatorium. The opera focuses on ...

Maxim Myshkin, 40, was released early from an almost 25 year sentence despite twice strangling and robbing women pensioners. He had been convicted of killing grandmothers aged 83 and 62 ...