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- 1Wall Street Journal revisits Dostoevsky's 'The Idiot'●‘The Idiot’: Dostoevsky’s Classic Novel of an Honest Man
The Wall Street Journal has published a feature on Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1869 novel 'The Idiot', framing it as a classic study of an honest man. The piece revisits the story of Prince Myshkin, whose goodness and naivety collide with a corrupt society, and reflects on why the novel still resonates with modern readers more than 150 years after publication.