unselfishness = stupidity (The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoyevsky)

Member Name: Tati

Product:	The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Date:	02/12/00 (71 review reads)
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Advantages: important meaning

Disadvantages: very long russian names

Is being kind, generous and warm hearted a proof of being an idiot? Well, I bet the answer changes from person to person. Dostoyevsky would say 'yes'. By introducing to us Prince Myshkin (ie. the idiot) he shows us a person that cannot find the place in the real World. Myshkin doesn't care about himself much, he cares about he loves, about poor and about sick, however this doesn't gain him any respect. It is rather opposite because his behaviour and total honesty only strenghtens the opinion of Russian society that he is an idiot. The biggest advantage of this book is that it's meaning can be applied to today's society as well. Don't we consider noble people to be idiots? Shouldn't that be changed? Shouldn't the ones that are selfish and egocentric be ostracized? Give this book to someone for Christmas - It's the time of sharing maybe they will understand and all of us will make the World a better place.

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