Der Idiot

Fjodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski

Prince Lev Myshkin returns to Russia after treatment for epilepsy in Switzerland, nearly penniless and socially inexperienced; his unusual openness and compassion strike others as “idiotic.” On the train he meets Rogozhin, obsessed with Nastasya Filippovna, and soon enters the circle of the Yepanchin family and their daughter Aglaya. Dostoevsky explores innocence, dignity, love, money, jealousy, and faith in a society that mistakes goodness for foolishness.