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justin1227 's review for:
The Idiot
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
i mostly read this bc of what donna tartt had to say about it in the goldfinch:
“What if — is more complicated than that? What if maybe opposite is true as well? Because, if bad can sometimes come from good actions—? where does it ever say, anywhere, that only bad can come from bad actions? Maybe sometimes — the wrong way is the right way?”
but this is a decidedly less hopeful read than tartt’s spin on it. it’s solid and surprisingly readable, but i found it less fulfilling than dostoevsky’s later works. it was fun to see him approach some topics that he would develop much more completely in demons and bk
i think my favorite thing about dostoevsky is the doubt that pervades everything he writes - i think he uses his characters to voice his beliefs, political, psychological, and religious, that are completely at odds with each other.
“What if — is more complicated than that? What if maybe opposite is true as well? Because, if bad can sometimes come from good actions—? where does it ever say, anywhere, that only bad can come from bad actions? Maybe sometimes — the wrong way is the right way?”
but this is a decidedly less hopeful read than tartt’s spin on it. it’s solid and surprisingly readable, but i found it less fulfilling than dostoevsky’s later works. it was fun to see him approach some topics that he would develop much more completely in demons and bk
i think my favorite thing about dostoevsky is the doubt that pervades everything he writes - i think he uses his characters to voice his beliefs, political, psychological, and religious, that are completely at odds with each other.