The Idiot

Acclaimed by the 20th-century Russian critic Mikhail Bakhtin for its "polyphony" (a literary concept introduced by Bakhtin to describe a plurality of voices within a narrative), The Idiot is regarded by modern critics as one of Dostoevsky's most experimental and artistically uneven novels.The novel follows the entrance of the epileptic Prince Muishkin-a character Dostoevsky meant to represent a "positively good and beautiful man"-into a circle of Russian high society characterized by vanity...