
Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Great Russian Novelist and Proto-Existentialist
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The Idiot
He said all these hardened criminals came into prison. They were brutally tortured and they came out worse people, almost a hundred % at a time. So despite the fact that empirically, he says, he admits this never actually works. And then after that, he wrote the idiot, which is the most religious novel. It's about, likei jesus christ arrived to day in a, in the modern cynic saint petersburg. I don't know why it never got popular, but it's the plot of the idiot, quite obviously. Anyway, as you can imagine this person is too naive. They give love to everybody equally, like a christ like love, and everybody
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