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olichoreno 's review for:
The Idiot
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The character of Nastasya Filippovna is as central as Myshkin throughout the story, but her psyche is much more developed than that of the Christian man. The internal battle she has over what the world has forced her to be against what she would like to be tortures her from within, setting aside her own happiness out of an unknown fear of what that could be contrary to what she already knows. This progression can be seen from the conversation in the first chapter on the train between Myshkin and Parfyon to their final conversation in the dark room in the second chapter. It's not the best book I've read by Dostoevsky, as Crime and Punishment and Notes from Underground are out there, but it is definitely worthy of him. If it weren't for Victor Hugo in France, there wouldn't be a debate about which country in Europe has the best literature.