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 ...

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-81) is considered one of the greatest ... Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), Demons (1871) and The Brothers Karamazov (1880). The evocative power of ...

Photo: Joel Marklund/Zuma Press/Damian Dovarganes/AP/Omar Ashtawy Apaimages/Zuma Press Recalling his own days of despair, Dostoevsky explained that “at such moments one thirsts for faith like ...