A review by aidonz
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.0

Dialectics. Dostoyevsky’s severe convictions toward God’s existence, Russian nationalism, and ultimate love for fellow man vs. his sympathy for atheism, socialism, and self satisfaction. The idiot is Dostoevsky’s weakest argument out of his greater works, but it is his most honest. It’s a shrug of the shoulders. Which is a breath of fresh air after reading Demons (his most political work). Dostoevsky allows himself to explore the idiocy he saw in himself and the high society of Russia, the idiocy of empathy in an increasingly cynical world, and the idiocy of a belief in God in a world that brutally murdered The supposedly god-sent Jesus.