withherheadinabook 's review for:

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
4.0

Let's just get this out of the way: I'm a piece of shit who stopped reading at the end of Part II. Having said that, it's clear as day what a great book The Idiot is — it's just not right for who I am right now, though I plan to return (and return again) to it within a decade. Simply reading Part I, however, has left a clear impression on my self and knowledge of art and literature. The symbolic idiot appears everywhere!