"The soul is healed by being with children." — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Prince Myshkin returns to Russia after years in a Swiss sanatorium. Kind, sincere, and almost childlike in his honesty, he steps into a world that thrives on power, manipulation, and social ambition. Branded “an idiot” for his goodness, he becomes entangled in a tragic web of love, greed, and moral decay. The Idiot is Dostoyevsky’s profound meditation on innocence in a corrupt world—a story of virtue misunderstood, love unrequited, and the destructive nature of human pride.
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