Prince Myshkin
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In the Provo Great Books Club (see also here) we recently finished Homer’s Odyssey and we just began Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot.
No, The Idiot is not a biography of Joe Biden, although that might be a good title for such a book.
What is it, then?
The title is a an ironic reference to the central character of the novel, Prince (Knyaz) Lvov Nikolaevic…
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