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I simply love how Dostoyevsky writes. I love his intelligent, humble, self-deprecatory humor.
I love his characters. They are messed up, emotionally instable people that are as three-dimensional as any real human being. We human beings spend our lives trying so hard to understand each other, to do the right thing (hopefully) and yet are continually str ...more
I simply love how Dostoyevsky writes. I love his intelligent, humble, self-deprecatory humor.
I love his characters. They are messed up, emotionally instable people that are as three-dimensional as any real human being. We human beings spend our lives trying so hard to understand each other, to do the right thing (hopefully) and yet are continually str ...more
In line after line, the author plays with words. There is humor. It is satirical. What we read is amusing, but the story is too thin. The plot is practically non-existent.
The lodgers at a New York boardinghouse for single gentleman, Mrs. Smithers-Pedagog’s Home, gather each morning around the breakfast table. Seated around the table are the proprietress, her husband who is a schoolmaster and former lodger, a lawyer, a bilbliomaniac, a poet, a doctor, a pastor and the so-called idiot. Idiot is t ...more
The lodgers at a New York boardinghouse for single gentleman, Mrs. Smithers-Pedagog’s Home, gather each morning around the breakfast table. Seated around the table are the proprietress, her husband who is a schoolmaster and former lodger, a lawyer, a bilbliomaniac, a poet, a doctor, a pastor and the so-called idiot. Idiot is t ...more
After years spent abroad being treated for epilepsy, Prince Myshkin courageously returns to Russian society. Stars Paul Rhys.
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