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36. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
I have finally finished this giant book, which is quite a relief. For the most part, I enjoyed it reading it, but I confess to feeling that it was all a bit beyond me.
I enjoyed the first part the most, when some interesting and amusing ... You will have to let me know how the Dostoevsky books are - I have an older translation of The Idiot (I do not know who the translator(s) is/are, but I know it is not P-V).
Enjoy Bayou! ... read one or two of the new translations of Dostoevsky by Pevear & Volokhonsky first, probably Crime and Punishment and The Idiot. It's been a terrible month for reading, due mainly to overwork. I've also been grappling with The Idiot, which I hope to finish in the next few days, so that I can pick up something a little more straightforward and less unwieldly, and perhaps even make it to 40 books before the year is ... ... Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov in one year! And read 76 books in total so far! I'm planning to start The Idiot soon and will use you as my inspiration if I find myself flagging! ... change any time, is idiosyncratic, of books that affected my life. Not in any order:
Madame Bovary
Anna Karenina
The Idiot
Light in August
Good Soldier Svejk
Pride and Prejudice
Passage to India
Iliad, Odyssey
Huckleberry Finn
Good Soldier
Lord Jim
Franny ... ... Humiliated - (Published 1861)
The House of the Dead - (Published 1862)
Notes from Underground - (Published 1864)
The Idiot - (Published 1869)
The Possessed - (Published 1872)
The Raw Youth or The Adolescent - (Published 1875) ... is out of date again:
What were the last three books you bought?
Roseanna (first Martin Beck mystery); The Idiot; and four Hard Case Mysteries
(These are what I bought for myself as opposed to gifts.)
What are the next three books you want to buy?
Probably the ... ... of course). (Forgive me I cannot remember how old your daughter is). I first read Dostoevsky when I was 13 or 14 I think, The Idiot. In his lifetime he was also very popular with the young. I cannot account for this, except to say that what appealed to me most, I think, was the other-worldly ... Romola by George Eliot
Idiot* by Fyodor Dostoevskii
Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson
Revizor* by Nikolai Gogol
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
*Titles in the original Russian; translated as THE Idiot and THE Inspector General (Russian has no articles.) ... understanding of things, but with much the same depth of honesty in interpersonal dealings.
I think of Prince Myshkin in The Idiot. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. There. That is the best part of the whole book.
I loved The Idiot and Jonathon Strange and Mr Norrel but I am heartened by all the people who, like me, could not plow through the The Silmarillion. When I meet people who say it is the best of of JRRT's ... Dostoevsky's The Idiot.Never made it past page one.Meredith's The Egoist(I don't know why).Anything by Henry James(and,oh,I have tried.Hard.) ... short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
3. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
4. Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller
5. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Goes without saying that the first is non-fiction and the rest are fiction. I won't have finished The Idiot by the end of June but I've ... ... book to read NOW?
Because my other choices were a self-teaching guide to math and the The Religion of Technology by David F. Noble and I'm feeling a little too lazy to pick those back up. Also, Secret Story by Ramsey Campbell but that seemed too light. I've been hearing about Pe ... ... book to read NOW?
Because my other choices were a self-teaching guide to math and the The Religion of Technology by David F. Noble and I'm feeling a little too lazy to pick those back up. Also, Secret Story by Ramsey Campbell but that seemed too lite. I've been hearing about Perfu ... The Idiot was a slow read for me as well, I remember, but I ended up adoring it--I hope you enjoy! ... the effort to track down the rest of the series.
Also reading (very slowly)
How Are We to Live?, Peter Singer
The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Transition, Iain Banks ... A Biography, Sartre: The Philosopher of the Twentieth Century) and hefty novels (Darkmans, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Brothers Karamazov, The Satanic Verses, The Moor's Last Sigh, etc.), so I'm sure that my reading will appear to "slow down". ... Notes From Underground, then move on to Crime and Punishment. NFU is almost like a precursor to C&P. Then move on to The Idiot, and follow up with Brothers. After those move on to the lesser-knowns, like Demons.
I'm a bit of a Dostoevsky nut, btw. ... Zhivago (6)
The Master and Margarita (5)
The Woman in White (4)
Madame Bovary (4)
Buddenbrooks (3)
The Idiot (3)
Tristram Shandy (3)
Don Quixote (3)
Possession (3)
The Brothers Karamazov (2)
Martin Chuzzlewit (2)
Tom Jones (2)
The Sound and the Fury ...
War and Peace
David Copperfield
Forsyte Saga
The Idiot
Far Pavillions
Gone with the Wind
The Little Prince
The Harry Potter series -only if read by Jim Dale
... The Grapes of Wrath (unless it's already been done?)
I'll second (or third?) :
Don Quixote
The Woman in White
The Idiot
Doctor Zhivago
I also loved Madame Bovary when I read it last year! ... Doestoy's stuff anytime. I would think one of his later, "mature" novels would fit the bill. Slick, I know you just read The Idiot recently, so we'd probably want to avoid that, but why not C & P or BK, or even A Raw Youth, Doestoy's least read "mature" novel. Someone's going to have to ... ... Rudyard Kipling
And I'll second:
The Master and Margherita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak ... xt.
I assume we can decide a time limit later.
I suggest that we read one of these next:
Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun
The Man without Qualities by Robert Musil
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky Well, The Idiot doesn't have violence at least, from what I remember--certainly nothing along the lines of what occurs in Crime and Punishment. It's more of a delving into social satire in a way, along the lines of what Henry James might engage in. Let me know if you do look it up at some ... ... Right now Dostoevsky is rather frightning to me. But if I do pick him up again soon I will put my trust in you and get The Idiot. I thought he was a beautiful (probably brilliant) writer. I just couldn't handle (at the time) the violence.
Thank you for your visit and your response. I ... ... have kept me from re-reading Crime and Punishment. My Dostoevsky for all of you who might like it otherwise would be The Idiot--it's a beautiful book, and has a fair amount of humor thrown in in an odd way; I don't think it's one of the more widely read Dostoevskys, but it's a ... ... for example, with Dostoyevsky. He's got both Karamazov Brothers and Crime and Punishment, to say nothing of The Idiot and Notes From the Underground.
Thoughts? ...
9. God's Bits of Woods by
10. Villette by Charlotte Bronte
11. Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andric
12. The Idiot by Doestoevsky
... local library, marvelled at its size and then promptly put it down again! That said, the Dostoyevsky I have at home is The Idiot, which is also pretty hefty...
In any case, with my subsidiary challenges of reading more in French (and German) and reading 12 books that have been ... Hi TomcatMurr,
Last year I happened to reread The Idiot, and a little later, Hamsun's Hunger. I found very striking similarities with regard to Hippolyte. You might find this discussion interesting http://www.librarything.com/topic/39177 Hamsun, I think, was accused of plagiarizing Dostoyevsk ... Eruntane - I started The Idiot, but alas, got sidetracked by Outlander. It had a lot of promise, and I was intrigued as to how it might end.
Kira-Kira was good. It started very well, but kind of ran out of steam as the main problem increased. The climax was treated a little flatly, but ... ... read".
On my "Want to read" list at the moment are:
The New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable? by F. F. Bruce
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
The Evil Seed by Joanne Harris
Fatherland by Robert Harris
Kira-Kira ... ... Orleans in The Courts of Love and finally go to Scotland in Outlander. For a while now, I've been stuck in Russia with The Idiot. ... Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
- Rat Pack Confidential by Shawn Levy
- Eragon by Christopher Paolini
- The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Happy Prince and other stories by Oscar Wilde
- The Wrong Boy by Willy Russell
- The Plague by Albert Camus
- An Utterly Impa ... #7# The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevesky
a very good book. The plot twisted and turned all over the place. I got a little confused a few times and had to backtrack, but it's certainly worth reading. The main character, Prince Myshkin, was one of the most interesting characters i've ever come ... ... the fun out of reading.
As for my resolutions for 2009, I plan on reading some more Russian literature this year. I read The Idiot last summer, and I loved it. Since most of the Russian novels are fairly long, I will probably put this resolution off until summer. Since I am a teacher, I have ... I bought a copy of The Idiot by Dostoyevsky from my neighborhood Borders yesterday, the new translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. ... today as well! First day back volunteering at a, er, charity shop (here we go!) so I bought Eragon and Dostoevsky's The Idiot from there (I did actually buy it a few weeks ago but this copy is nicer, less tatty, haha), and Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince and Other Stories from across ... Welcome, cmt!
Today from various booksellers:
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Notes From the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Au Bonheur des Dames by Emile Zola ... Count of Monte Cristo (I *loved* The Three Musketeers) and also have Moby Dick, Les Miserables, Anna Karenina and The Idiot on my shelves. I want to get round to reading the rest of the Gormenghast Trilogy and finish Journey to the West.
Then we get onto the books I don't own ... ... from The Norwegian Book Club):
'Demons' (I guess it's another title of 'The Possessed')
Crime and Punishment
and
The Idiot >128 bookinmybag, I'd suggest The Idiot by Dostoevsky. A nice change, but also a continuity of errrrmmmm aesthetic? attitude? Intangible whatever, is the point...I think they'll make a nice pairing. ... 1 and 2 reprinted in 1969 with a translation and introduction by David Magarshack. We also have a Penguin edition of The Idiot reprinted 1967 also translated by David Magarshack.
So I'm away. I've never read Dostoyevsky before so I'm looking forward to it. I've just finished Steve ... ... by Anne Frank
- Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller
- Atonement by Ian McEwan
- Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence
- The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Addition by Toni Jordan
- Crazy as Chocolate by Elisabeth Hyde
- Kitchen Confidential ... ... and am now planning to search the Internet for background information. Interested to read that the book influenced The Idiot and Madame Bovary (according to Wikipedia), both being books I enjoyed. Now I have 11 months for the other 74 books - oh dear! Share your thoughts and commentary on Dostoevsky's work The Idiot. ... Kant
39. The World as Will and Representation by Arthur Schopenhauer
40. Das Kapital by Karl Marx
41. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
42. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
43. Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus
44. Good-Bye to All That Roman by Rober ... Dale Carnagie? I think that was my major quibble. I was pleasantly surprised by some entries (Foucault's Pendulum or The Idiot) and also by how many I had read.
Fun list. Thanks for posting. ... shops and charity shops, so while I waited for her to finish up I hit three of the latter and came out with Dostoyevsky's The Idiot (65p, bargain!), a nearly-new hardback of Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller (£1.50), an untouched film tie-in copy of Atonement by Ian McEwan (£1.50), and a ... ... Therese Raquin, Emile Zola, 2006
46. Little Women, Alcott, 1960's
47. The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins, 1966
48. The Idiot, Dostoevsky, 1969
49. War and Peace, Tolstoi, 1966
50. Middlemarch, George Eliot, 2001
51. Far from the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy, 1970's
52. *Dan ... ... age as you read Le Grand Meaulnes and suspect that he might have more to say to me now as well. Although I remember that The Idiot knocked my socks off back then... Well I am still plodding on with The Idiot and feel like I wont get it finished till October 2009 at this rate!
I am enjoying it to a degree but will think twice about my next book - one that needs a little less time and commitment beckons I think! ... rd
33. Don't Tell Alfred by Nancy Mitford
34. Nine by Andrzej Stasiuk
35. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
36. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky Well I am hoping the first book finished with be The Idiot by Fydor Dostoevsky (please let me finish it in 2009....!)
As for the first book to start reading in 2009 I think it may be The Republic of Trees by Sam Taylor. Although I have a fair few in my library to read yet.. I am currently reading The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky... Up to page 201 so far. I have been reading it for a couple of weeks now (I am not very quick in between working and other things). I am enjoying it although am now wondering if I will ever read another book again or if I will indeed ... ... Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
4. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
5. Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
6. The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky
7. Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
8. The Awakening, Kate Chopin
9. North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell ... Most of my Russian friends agree this is their favorite book ever, but make sure to get an annotated translation.
- The Idiot
One of the classical "Russian Greats." This is my favorite by Dostoevsky, and in my opinion it's his most accessible work. Depicts upper-crust Russian society ... ... opard
2. The Woman in White
3. Tom Jones
4. Tristram Shandy
5. Memoirs of Hadrian
6. The Idiot
7. A Jane Austen readover
8. Barchester Towers
9.Swann's Way Hate to be difficult, emaestra, but The Idiot has been used. It is on the list at the top. Wanna throw out a different challenge? I've read The Razor's Edge. It took me awhile to find one I've read that hasn't been used yet - how about The Idiot? ... with it, and perhaps not. Anna Karenina I prefer to War and Peace. But my nudge echoes Kevin above, and goes to The Idiot. I loved the book when I read it too many years ago. It may be time to reread, but I do have these glaring unread TBR piles all around, too. ... reading glasses, the print in those editions was very small.
In stout support of my Russian favourite I'm going to nudge The Idiot as I love the character of Prince Myshkin.
This is a sexist comment, of which I am already ashamed and contrite, but it's good to get in first before the ... ... - **
Shirley - *
Wuthering Heights - ****
Villette - *
The Professor - *
Right Side
The Jungle
The Idiot - **
Crime and Punishment - **
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Jude the Obscure
The Count of Monte Cristo - *
Thanks in advance,
- M1001 I loved The Idiot and yes, I love the Russians, too. There aren't enough of them in 1001. Anyone else for The Brothers Karamazov? Not quite the only person - I've read War and Peace, though I prefer Anna Karenina. How about The Idiot? I do love the Russians! ... there is some dissent.
Is it paranoia when you think inanimate objects are mocking you? I have never been able to read The Idiot. LOL ... start with The Brothers Karamozov. Not quite a theologian or philosopher, but a little more accessible. Then move on to The Idiot.
Throw in some Walker Percy and Flannery O'Connor, and you have a good beginning.
As to theologians, Jurgen Moltmann's The Theology of Hope is a good ... ... this is very hard. I'll limit myself to just one choice of each, though.
Most: The Brothers Karamazov because I loved The Idiot and Crime and Punishment and Karamazov is supposed to be Dostoevsky's best work.
Least: Moby Dick Somehow, I've never had to read this book for school, ... I plan to re-read soon:
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. ... Norwegian (29 volumes), but I haven't read all of them yet. Some of the voluminous novels are in two or three volumes (i.e. The Idiot, The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment), and there are two volumes of Dostoyevsky's letters and some volumes containing short stories.
P.S.
I hope ... I'm going to re-read The Idiot in about three (four?) weeks from now.
I have to finish Midnight's Children (by Salman Rushdie) which I'm currently reading. It is a great novel, as well.
I'm really looking forward to reading Dostoyevsky again.
I remember Myshkin in The Idiot as one of Do ... A long time ago I've readthe Brothers Karamazov and I liked it a lot.Now I'd like to read it again and to read the idiot as well. 8-10 years ago I read quite a lot of Dostoyevsky's novels, and I think four (at least) of them are marvellous:
1. The Idiot
2. Crime and Punishment
3. The Brothers Karamazov
4. The Posessed (or 'Demons', which might be the correct English title?) ... did have some very interesting parts about how they lived day to day.)
Far From The Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy,
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Les Miserables by Victor Hugo,Quo Vadisby Henryk Sienkiewicz and Ivanhoe and Quentin Durward, both by Sir Walter Scott are some more ... ... my parents read. My mother read lots of books about India, so I asked if I could read the Far Pavillions. My dad read The Idiot, and I asked if I could read that. He was skeptical because I was only ten, and he tested me to see of I could understand it. I really loved the classics best, ... ... Copperfield or Pickwick Papers
The Histories - something a bit different
Vanity Fair
The Brothers Karamazov or The Idiot
First Circle or Cancer Ward
The Killer Inside Me, Jim Thompson
The Idiot, Dostoyevsky
Monster, Sanyika Shakur
Confessions of a Crap Artist, Philip K. Dick
Hells Angels, Hunter S. Thompson Okay, I'm also cool with The Idiot, and I'll also say The Count of Monte Cristo, just to add more to the mix (like we need it). I read Les Miserables a long time ago, but I wouldn't mind joining in the discussions on that one. ... that, it'd be nice to read something from Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, or maybe The Idiot? I've fallen a bit behind where planned but I'm still chugging away. This fortnight I finally turned the last page of The Idiot and heaved a sigh of relief. Now I'm not saying that I'm not glad I read this book - I did - it just seemed to me like watching a great big boulder rolling down a ... I've fallen a bit behind where planned but I'm still chugging away. This fortnight I finally turned the last page of The Idiot and heaved a sigh of relief. Now I'm not saying that I'm not glad I read this book - I did - it just seemed to me like watching a great big boulder rolling down a ... ... & selection of items in his house. If you haven't read this, I'd make a space for it in your planning.
97. (130) The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (718pp)
I purchased this book almost 2 years ago now and I just didn't feel right having it on the shelf but never actually completing it so ... ... obscene Boundaries by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
19. Quartet by Jean Rhys
20. The Holy Terrors by Jean Cocteau
21. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevski
22. The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal
23. Nine Stores by J.D.Salinger
24. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
25. Tale ... The Thin Man/Big Boned
Nineteen Minutes/100 Years of Solitude
Slow Man/Fast Women
The Master/The Idiot
White Teeth/Black Beauty ... Wife - John Collier
The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye, Jonathan Lethem
Ferdydurke - Witold Gombrowicz
The Idiot - Dostoevsky
The Loved One - Waugh
Amorgos - Nikos Gatsos
Typhoon - Joseph Conrad
Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences - Twain
Crome Yellow - ... I think it was angst sublimation. No boyfriend? Read The Idiot. Not a drop of cheerleader in your persona (i.e., the popular girls)? Read Ulysses.
Kiwi, I had a huge science fiction collection too. :) Well, I don't know whether to recommend this or not since I loved The Idiot and Crime and Punishment, but hate (I'm not exaggerating) The Awakening. Still, just in case, have you read anything by Kazuo Ishiguro? Based on the book choices you've got up there that I've read, I'd strongly ... ... is the list keeps changing... but it's a good problem. Complete reviews of each book can be found in my library.
01. The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky
This was my first Dostoevsky and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I found the characters engaging and while alone each might be a bit of a bore, ... ... love with them ever since. I have a particular fondness for Russian Literature, having read my father's discarded copy of The Idiot when I was ten. I also enjoy mysteries,historical fiction, southern literature, science fiction and historical biographies, not necessarily in that order. That ... 6. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky 608 pages- I really enjoyed this one. It was my first foray into Dostoevsky, and his characters felt very real to me. I just finished it two days ago, and I miss reading it already.
Total so far- 2034 pages
7. Sox and the City by Richard Roeper 208 ... ... Souls
Wuthering Heights
Fathers and Sons
Great Expectations
Notes from the Underground
Crime and Punishment
The Idiot
The Possessed
Anna Karenina
Germinal (long ago)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (long ago)
Hellemyrsfolket
Sult (in English: "Hunger")
The Picture of D ... ... Svejk (Hasek)
Pride and Prejudice (Austen)
Madame Bovary (Flaubert)
Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
The Idiot (Dostoevsky)
The Little Prince (St. Exupery)
The Outsider (Camus)
A Passage to India (Forster)
Heart of Darkness (Conrad)
Light ... I am following the idealistic Prince Myshkin around Russia in Dostoevsky's The Idiot. " Oh no, not at all. You need not worry about that. My business is of quite a different nature."
The Idiot Dostoevsky
"You think, then, that you'll live more wisely than everyone else, do you?" " oh no, not a t all. You need not wrry about that. My business is of quite a different nature."
The Idiot Dostoevsky
"You think, then, that you'll live more wisely than everyone else, do you?" I am about 250 pages into The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky. This is my first foray into Dostoevsky, and I am finding it to be beautifully written. ... point, though probably after I've read some of his other work. I've not yet got round to either Crime and Punishment or The Idiot... #135: I loved The Idiot too.
You are going great guns, teelgee. Enjoying watching your turtle plod through W&P. I keep eyeing my copy but there it sits. Maybe in the summer. ... by Ian McEwan
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon
The Human Stain by Philip Roth
The Idiot by Fyodor Doestoyevsky
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
I started with Brothers Karamozov and so far it's the only Dostoevsky I've read (though The Idiot is sitting on the TBR pile as my next crack at him.) I've also read "The Heavenly Christmas Tree", a heartbreaking short story by him.
The only tough thing about Dostoevsky (and Russian writers ... I thought The Idiot was a fascinating read, so I always recommend that one since so many people seem to skip over it.... ... a lot longer, with more characters, and therefore potentially harder to read/get into if you're not used to his style. The Idiot could be good- not as widely read, but a great book. Not so much The Devils or The Possessed (same book, published under different names)- definitely good, but ... ... was Dostoevsky's second-best novel next to Crime and Punishment as many people seem to; I reserve that honor for The Idiot. It was; however, definitely a great novel. There are some slower points, but if you push through them, it is well worth it. Let me know what you think. ... I brought with me. The oldest, or longest on my shelf, is The Beginnings of English Society (The Anglo Saxon Period) (2). The Idiot is close. I started reading it, just never finished it. Why is that? I was thoroughly enjoying it. 5. 1001 BOOKS TO READ BEFORE YOU DIE
Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
The Idiot - Fyodor Doestoyevsky
Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham
... ... the same shopping center, so....
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
...came home with me, all for a mere $8.45. This store sells new and used books, CDs, and DVDs. My books were used, obviously, ... ... question! Dostoyevsky, of course, was epileptic, and he certainly used that experience in his fiction - most overtly in The Idiot, which was always a favorite of mine. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky ... й.
Fair enough, as per present LT data, though original language is Russian, it says, original title is : "The idiot: A novel in two books (Selected works / Fyodor Dostoyevsky)" (sic), it says.
Proper Dutch title is De idioot, by Fjodor Dostojevski.
2)< ... I'll be reading the Pevear-Volokhonsky version soon. I've already read their The Idiot, Demons, The Brothers Karamazov, Anna Karenina, and Crime and Punishment, but honestly I'm no wiser on whether they're good translators or not, since I don't know Russian. There were a few points in ... ... - Primo Levi
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Vanity Fair - William Thackery
alternate:
The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky I'm currently re-reading The Idiot by Dostoevsky and lovin' it. Back in high school, I remember a summer when I read a lot of Dostoevsky and I'm starting to feel it coming on again. The Idiot is a different book, isn't it? In "The Machinist" Trevor is reading The Idiot, Dostoyevsky. At the moment I'm working on Fathers and Sons and The Idiot for school. The Idiot is a reread for me and I love it. I'm liking Fathers and Sons too though, a lot more than I expected to. On my own I'm reading The Old Curiosity Shop, although I'm finding I don't have a lot of time to devote to ... ... attend The Trail with Kafka and Nickelini which I didn’t think much of. Now I’m glad to be back in Petersburg for The Idiot. Throughout it all I’ve been learning loads from Riasanovsky’s A History of Russia while skipping all across the map of Russia, (although I was most ... I would say Dostoevsky's Idiot. All of his works are apt, but this one just happens to be my favorite. ... to make that Shakespeare explores existentialist themes in H and KL just as much as Dostoevsky does in The Demons, or the Idiot, for example.
But I'm obviuosly mad, so I'll just stay out and let you guys carry on. Sorry if I offended anyone.
:) Xiguli (#7):
I had to have the crime and punishment - it was a design/art investment for me... (Dostoyevsky's The Idiot (Penguin Designer Classics) in that edition is next on the list in my collection...)
And as far as different cover/designs for different countries - I *love* collecting ... ... I've read it before. Probably in one of my asian lit classes during my undergrad.
geneg -
How about reading The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky? My boyfriend has been reading that book on and off for a while now and it seems he'll never get around to finishing it so as to ... ... story series by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö is all about communism. I’m happy to know people have noticed that The Idiot and Bhagavad-gita are fantasy. However, I wasn’t aware that Animal farm is folklore. I was never any good in geography, but now I know that Lolita and The ... ... story series by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö is about communism. I’m happy to know people have noticed that The Idiot and Bhagavad-gita are fantasy. However, I wasn’t aware that Animal farm is folklore. I was never any good in geography, but now I know that Lolita and The ... ... acting out of good motivations.
I'm reminded of the character Smerdyakov in one of Dostoyevsky's novels (I think it was The Idiot). I'm thinking of the absolutely chilling scene when Smerdyakov goes into the little girl's bedroom and is convinced she is consciously and deliberately trying to ... ... which I really don't think can be appreciated in the abstract. And Dostoevsky is so essential, I wish there were room for The Idiot as well as The Brothers Karamazov. One really must have examples drawn from life to ever begin to understand the kinds of dilemmas people face in the ... I am currently read four books, three of which are classics:
The Idiot; Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Aeneid; Virgil
Don Quixote; Miguel de Cervantes
... (but that might be a compliment to some...LOL)
A Maggot by John Fowles
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
The Idiot by Dostoevsky
and for something modern, The Yellow Bastard by Frank Miller
(The first four were from the 1001 must-read books list. ;o) I'd be very interested. I'm currently reading The Idiot. ... (at least in a weeks time).
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{added 8/4/07} The Idiot, by Fyodor Dostoevsky (564 pages) Comments: I started this book at the beginning of the summer, but I didn't quite finish it. Thus, I decided to restart it in ... I usually have a ton of quotes from anything written by Dostoevsky. So not so suprisingly The Idiot has provided a ton as well.
“…what plans are graver and more sacred than a father’s? What should a man cling to, if not to his family?” (15)
“What must be passing in the soul ... Is anyone interested in a "slow reading" of The Idiot? By that I mean giving less attention to the psychological "themes" typical of secondary sources and more - even line by line - on the conversations and actions (and the connections between them) that happen within the book. Maybe I will just ... ... work is : Misdaad en straf.
Alternative Dutch language title of this work is : Schuld en boete.
• The Idiot (your copy)
Dutch language title of this work is : De idioot.
Both of us do know and remember that I have ... ... of the birth, where he eventually came around a bit and began work on his next novel, which would turn out to be The Idiot, and was able to extract the first of many generous and in many ways life-saving advances on it and other proposed and actual projects from Katkov. A daughter was ... ... ars.
(Up next, Tolstoy and War and Peace, plus the Dostoevskys wandering nearly penniless in Europe, and writing of the The Idiot and The Possessed) ... translation
The Decameron by Boccaccio
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Anything by Agatha Christie
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevski
Logbook from the Sea of Cortez by Steinbeck
Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 Reported by James Madison by Ja ... ...
The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith by Carey
A Fine Balance by Minstry
Cloud Atlas by Mitchell
Wicked by Maguire
The Idiot by Dostoevsky
Years of Rice and Salt by Robinson
(there are more too, but these are the top 7)
... do come to life. But Doestoevsky has a way of plunging us deep into his characters' souls. My personal favorite is The Idiot, which is suffused with a sense of redemption and hope, but The Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment are also amazing novels. ... greatest of the Dostoievsky novels is the Brothers Karamazov, but some would vote for Crime and Punishment or the Idiot. Turgenev's most famous novel is Fathers and Sons, but my favorites are the Sportsmen's Sketches aka Sketches from a Hunter's Album which were very popular in ... ... The Romany Rye by George Borrow
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Uncle Silas by J. Sheridan LeFanu
The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Independent People by Halldor Laxness
Gargantua and Pantagruel by Rabelais
The Marble Faun ... ... where the banal writing was in my view a huge missed opportunity to write about a fascinating alternate timeline.
The Idiot was turgid and dreary, even speaking as someone who, as can be seen from my library, am no stranger to reading classic Russian literature.
2001: A Space Odysse ... ... just because I like the closure, but I'm perfectly willing to drop one if it's not doing it for me. I finally gave up on The Idiot a third of the way through because I just wasn't interested and had other books I wanted to read. I couldn't finish Cold Mountain either. The Idiot. I gave it up a third of the way through. I didn't like the characters and didn't care what happened to them.
I enjoyed Crime and Punishment and finally finished The Brothers Karamozov on the third try. A very long list that shames me, I'm afraid. Of course The Brothers Karamazov, The Idiot, The Magic Mountain, The Vivisector, Voss, Les Miserables, The Glass Bead Game, Beowulf, Don Quixote, Nostromo, The Tale of Genji and Piers Ploughman. A comprehensive lack of interest in ... Just getting a good start on Dostoevsky's The Idiot. ... it's finished - much to my chagrin the next day.
How very different to my struggle with The Brothers Karamazov and The Idiot, not even mentioning several 'major European novels' that have remained 'started but unfinished' for years at a time. There's something to be said for the quality ... Dostoevsky's The Idiot. I had started it once before and dropped it. I've started over and have enjoyed it so far. I liked Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamozov also. Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
The Idiot by Dostoyevski (yeah, I know that's not really a big one, but I'm guessing it'll be a big sort of read).
And I'm determined to finish The American Boy by Andrew Taylor (the touchstone doesn't ... I pulled these somewhat haphazardly out of the fiction titles I had rated as fives:
The Idiot by Dostoevsky
Germinal by Zola
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Marquez
Hamlet by Shakespeare
Ulysses by Joyce
The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck
The Recognitions ... ...
I'm embarrassed to say that I haven't finished Crime and Punishment, but in what I have read (Brothers Karamazov, The Idiot, The Possessed), Dostoevsky deals with adult situations in non-explicit ways. Not stuff I'd read to kids, but I'd unhesitatingly recommend these books to ... ... despite lauding Dostoevsky, I constantly fail to finish his novels; I've been reading The Brothers Karamazov and The Idiot for close on fifteen years and can't make any headway with either. ... and revisit Dostoevsky, whom I so much enjoyed in my teens, nearly 40 years ago - though I was then baffled by The Idiot. So I re-read it twice, first in Allan Myers Oxford translation, and was still baffled and then in the newish Everyman translation by Richard Pavear & Larissa Volo ...
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