A review by lesserjoke
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

2.0

The Idiot -- which might more fairly be called The Naïf -- follows a wide-eyed innocent as he leaves his Swiss sanitarium for Russian high society and generally finds himself unprepared for its corruption and amorality. Some of these events are droll, but I felt there were too many tangents and too many instances of characters sounding like mouthpieces for the author's philosophizing rather than distinct and realistic personalities. Ultimately I didn't get much out of this read.