The Idiot
Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Narrated by Jefferson Mays
4.5/5
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky was born in Moscow in 1821. Between 1838 and 1843 he studied at the St Petersburg Engineering Academy. His first work of fiction was the epistolary novel Poor Folk (1846), which met with a generally favourable response. However, his immediately subsequent works were less enthusiastically received. In 1849 Dostoevsky was arrested as a member of the socialist Petrashevsky circle, and subjected to a mock execution. He suffered four years in a Siberian penal settlement and then another four years of enforced military service. He returned to writing in the late 1850s and travelled abroad in the 1860s. It was during the last twenty years of his life that he wrote the iconic works, such as Notes from the Underground (1864), Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1868) and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), which were to form the basis of his formidable reputation. He died in 1881.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wow, what a fantastic reader. Once I found out that the book is the result of a magazine serial that was written along and along as the publication required I understood its structure, and was able to accept that quality in it. But the reader was so outstanding that even the tedious parts (because of the structure) were rendered so vivid to my mind, I became quite addicted to it, and the ending also followed from the author not knowing where he would take it. People rarely write with such a talent for creating a world for the reader to inhabit as if they were there. So glad to have experienced that yet again with another tested, tried and true classic.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5What did I just read! Now I understand when they say that Russian literature is very philosophical and complex.