Idiot (Version 2)

By Fyodor Dostoyevsky · Running time 29:05:40 · Literary Fiction, Published 1800 -1900

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Dostoyevsky considered “The Idiot” (published first in Russian in 1869) his “favourite child” — the novel in which he felt the greatest personal investment. We meet Lef Nicolaievitch Muishkin, a hereditary prince of the old Russian aristocracy, returning from abroad after only partially successful treatment for epilepsy. (Dostoyevsky himself was a lifelong sufferer from temporal lobe epilepsy, sometimes called “ecstatic” epilepsy. Experts have suggested that modern physicians would do well to study Dostoyevsky’s depiction of the condition.) Because of the debilitating severity of the disease d

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