Idiot

Dostoevsky attempts to portray "a positively beautiful person" and writes a novel about the fate of a prophet in a modern world where money is burned in fireplaces and hands over candles, where people lie, kill, and go mad.About the series:"The Main Books of Russian Literature" is a joint series by Alpina.Proza publishing house and the online project Polka. The works published in it are selected by contemporary writers, critics, literary scholars, and teachers. This is both an attempt to define what the Russian literary canon looks like today and a fresh perspective on well-known works: each book is accompanied by an introduction from the authors of Polka.