The Idiot

One cant understand everything at once we cant begin with perfection all at once! In order to reach perfection one must begin by being ignorant of a great deal. And if we understand things too quickly perhaps we shant understand them thoroughly. ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Idiot The Idiot (1069) by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a novel that recounts the life of Prince Myshkin a young man of twenty who comes back to Russia after having spent the past few years in Switzerland for the treatment of a severe epileptic condition. On his return he finds himself torn between the love of two women-Nastasya and Aglaia-both involved consecutively with greedy and corrupt Ganya. An alien in a society obsessed with money power and manipulation Myshkin eventually turns mad.