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Episode 164: Dostoyevsky’s “The Idiot” on Perfection (Part Two)

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Ivan, Ivan Ivanovich, and Ivan's Last Name

There are four or five different versions of the name for the same character. Some bear a resemblance to each other and others with no resemblance, he says. "What works in the village children in Switzerland doesn't work in the sophisticated Russian capital," Dostoevsky writes.

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