The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky (parts 1 and 2)

This month’s read: The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky (parts 1 and 2)

Join us to discuss The Idiot (1868-69), a masterful example of psychological realism.

At this meetup we will discuss the first half of the book: part 1 (chapters 1-16) and part 2 (chapters 1-12). We will discuss parts 3 and 4 of the book on June 10.

Spaces are limited; RSVP required. You are welcome to participate regardless of whether you've finished the first two parts of the book. Looking forward to seeing you there!

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The twenty-six-year-old Prince Myshkin, following a stay of several years in a Swiss sanatorium, returns to Russia to collect an inheritance and “be among people.” Even before he reaches home he meets the dark Rogozhin, a rich merchant’s son whose obsession with the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna eventually draws all three of them into a tragic denouement. In Petersburg the prince finds himself a stranger in a society obsessed with money, power, and manipulation. Scandal escalates to murder as Dostoevsky traces the surprising effect of this “positively beautiful man” on the people around him, leading to a final scene that is one of the most powerful in all of world literature.

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