The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/220512 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Idiot Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky Narrator: Jefferson Mays Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 28 hours 1 minute Release date: October 17, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Into a compellingly real portrait of nineteenth-century Russian society, Dostoevsky introduces his ideal hero, the saintly Prince Myshkin. The tensions subsequently unleashed by the hero's innocence, truthfulness, and humility betray the inadequacy of his moral idealism and disclose the spiritual emptiness of a society that cannot accommodate him. Myshkin's mission ends in idiocy and darkness, but it is the world that is rotten, not he.Written under appalling personal circumstances when Dostoevsky was travelling in Europe, The Idiot not only reveals the author's acute artistic sense and penetrating psychological insight, but also affords his most incisive indictment of Russia's struggling to emulate contemporary Europe and sinking under the weight of Western materialism.