The Idiot

Fyodor Dostoevsky’s profound novel follows Prince Lev Myshkin, a gentle and compassionate man who returns to Russia after years of treatment abroad. His honesty, innocence, and moral sensitivity sharply contrast with the ambition, jealousy, greed, and emotional turmoil of the society around him. As Myshkin becomes entangled in the lives of the troubled Nastasya Filippovna and the passionate Rogozhin, relationships grow increasingly complex and tragic. Through psychological conflict and intense human drama, the novel explores goodness, love, pride, suffering, obsession, and spiritual purity, questioning whether genuine innocence can survive in a world shaped by corruption and destructive desire.