I just started this one, although I have read it before. I am sure with all the other’s I am reading it will probably take me a long time. The summary and quote from the back of my copy, however, are so good and perhaps one of my main reasons for reading. Also, I feel a strong sense of connection with Myshkin, the main character, often… at least to the point that I sometimes really do want to be like him. My hope is to be as “innocently” loving and trusting that I do begin to love like Jesus. If I end up being taken advantage of and abused, I have someone to relate to. Here is the summary from the back of my copy.
“My intention is to portray a truly beautiful soul.” Dostoevsky
From this resolve emerged the character of Prince Myshkin, the saint-like man whose rare goodness evokes as much mistrust as love in a society more concerned with wealth, power and sexual conquest than the ideals of Christianity. Myshkin’s disintegration, reinforced by his daily increasing awareness of human misery, is final proof of the inability of any man to bear the burden of moral perfection in an imperfect world.
I couldn’t say it much better.
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