Hello everyone, I want to share my impressions of reading Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel The Idiot. The novel tells the story of a young man with a severe mental illness. After treatment in Switzerland, the young man, who turns out to be from the aristocratic family, returns to St. Petersburg, where he begins his life with members of the intelligentsia.
The hero becomes a participant of the love intrigues of noble families and tries to deal with his love experiences. He endures the ridicule of people who call him an idiot just because he says everything the way he thinks.
Let's start with the alleged status of "idiot" of the protagonist. He says everything without concealment, all the thoughts and experiences that are in his head he expresses. He is not suitable for that "intelligent" society, which constantly flatters each other, lies, deceives for profit. He can be called a child for his way of thinking. When reading a book, you sometimes catch yourself thinking that he is right in everything he says. Then you ask yourself a simple question: "Maybe I'm also an idiot?". Although the novel describes events more than a century ago, society has hardly changed. Instead of insulting the veil of flattery, they can now openly insult, but there is also flattery, intrigue for profit and the usual insincerity between people.
As for the love line, for the first time in my life, reading a book, I put drama and love in history first. I never really liked these love stories in books, I don't know why, I just don`t like it. But here I just delved and could not stop reading. Every experience of the hero, the images of beautiful women, all this is reflected in the memory and makes to empathize him.
The final will not leave anyone indifferent. It is unexpected, it is sharp, it makes you think: "Wow !!!". The conclusion that everyone will make after reading this novel is simple. Maybe it's better to be such a sincere idiot than to hide behind different masks.
