![]() In 1951 it received a Setting Update to Japan, in a film directed by Akira Kurosawa. The results are alternately tragic and darkly comic. Because of Myshkin’s innocence, nearly everyone assumes him to be a fool, and either immediately takes him into their confidence, or tries to exploit him outright. These people, with their crossed purposes and intrigues, are a keg of gunpowder, and Prince Myshkin’s noble qualities-his kindness, humility, and surprising forthrightness- are the spark that sets them off. He meets the brooding and passionate Rogozhin, the bitterly philosophical Ippolit, the possibly-mad femme fatale Nastasya, the capricious daughter of nobility Aglaya, and the vain but ordinary Gavrila. What Prince Myshkin finds within his very first day on Russian soil are people who, whether nobility or lower class, whether old Orthodox or young nihilists, are constantly struggling against each other: struggling for social status, for money, or for romantic conquest. ![]() He had received treatment for epilepsy and supposed mental deficiencies, and now that his treatments are at an end, he’s eager to “be with people” again. Petersburg after a several-year stay at a Swiss sanatorium. Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin returns to St. ![]() The Idiot ( Идиот) is a novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, originally published serially between 18. ![]() Fyodor Dostoyevsky, in a letter to Apollon Maikov, January 12, 1868 ![]()
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