In August 1867, at a museum in Basel, Switzerland, the Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky found himself standing before a painting of Christ, unable to look away. The work, entitled “The Body of the ...

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Out of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s monumental novel of “The Idiot,” the Lookingglass Theatre Company has extracted a stage piece that is a combination of soap opera, comic strip, piercing tragedy and ...

he main themes of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Idiot—goodness, sincerity, the conflict between innocence and corruption and the moral challenges faced by a pure individual in a flawed society—are ...

Translated by Mehri Ahi, the first edition of the Persian translation was published in 2016. “The Idiot” is a profound novel centered around Prince Myshkin, a young man in his mid-twenties who ...

What happened to Dostoevsky's four part masterpiece shouldn't happen to an idiot. First Director Ivan Pyriev and his collaborators at Mosfilm Studios decided to cut the last three-fourths of the novel ...

Programmer Prince Myshkin returns to his historical homeland from Switzerland, where he was undergoing treatment in a psychiatric clinic. On the bus, the prince meets businessman Parfen Rogozhin, who ...

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