The Idiot Condition:Well Read Crowds gather at the gates

Crowds gather at the gates of the Old Bailey to watch as Frannie Langton

it’s a reminder of the worst thing that ever happened to her

but we try to edit them out) are engaged on a quest to lead maledom to a broad sunlit upland strewn with slim books of English verse and neatly stacked with correctly sharpened tools arranged in descending size order

Talent wins games

The Idiot Condition:Well Read Crowds gather at the gatesAfter his great portrayal of a guilty man in Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky set out in The Idiot to portray a man of pure innocence. The twenty six year old Prince Myshkin, following a stay of several years in a Swiss sanatorium, returns to Russia to collect an inheritance and be among people. Even before he reaches home he meets the dark Rogozhin, a rich merchants son whose obsession with the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna eventually draws all three