#the idiot by fyodor dostoyevsky

[taintedmind6669]

[i-miss-breathing]

So is Nastasia sapphic or just a really cool feminist

[philosophybits]

I almost do not exist now and I know it; God knows what lives in me in place of me.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

[diabolicalrat]

I lied I don’t like sex. Put your clothes back on. Let’s discuss Dostoevsky.

[kratomqueen]

[academic-vampire]

Be a Dostoyevsky character: rot in your room! <3

[yvehattan]

A Fyodor Dostoevsky doodle for his birthday.

[gegengestalt]

"She's the sum of all my dreams come true. She has everything that I've ever lost." (Quote from the movie adaptation of The Idiot by Akira Kurosawa, 1951)

As soon as I finished the movie, all my feelings about The Idiot and Nastasya came flowing back and I sat down to make the first sketch that would become this.

[viiinz]

the theme of loneliness in The Idiot fucks me up so hard. as a reader you get introduced to this huge cast of characters, and then every single one of them is just so fucking lonely. they all live extremely isolated in their own way, despite the fact that every scene takes place in a room full of people. truly a book wherein no-one is able to understand the other

[dolline]

[taintedmind6669]

[macethelaboratoryrat]

Imagine Dostoevsky Fandom Con

Feel free to add specific characters in the tags!

[cassassinate123]

tried to find some good analysis of part 1 and tell me why this mf called nastasya filippovna "an only fans girl because she enjoys attention from men". these men do not deserve women

[sad-eyed-lady-of-the-paperbacks]

These paragraphs are from an older post of mine, but I’m going to make it its own post because I think I managed to pinpoint and articulate a huge part of why I love Dostoevsky novels so much, and why they resonate so deeply: his novels capture, as Mitya Karamazov puts it, “the realism of real life!” and he achieves this in a way that might seem counterintuitive.

Though heavily influenced by the gothic, Dostoevsky's genre is realism. In his novels, there are many extraordinary events, strange contradictions, outliers, plausible improbabilities, coincidences, almost miraculous occurrences—but all of this only contributes to the realism, because that's how real life is. "You can't make this up!" we say so often in real life. But Dostoevsky did make it up, and rather than break our suspension of disbelief, it counterintuitively imbues his novels with the very essence of reality.

Generally speaking, seemingly mystical events in Dostoevsky novels end up having psychological explanations. For example, in Crime and Punishment, it strikes Raskolnikov as miraculous that he should be thinking of Svidrigailov and then happen upon the very tavern where Svidrigailov is. But it is then revealed that Svidrigailov told him that he could be found in that tavern. Though Raskolnikov’s conscious mind forgot, that knowledge was still there subconsciously, so that when he started thinking about Svidrigailov, he went toward the tavern without knowing why. What seems a miracle is in fact psychological (and amazingly, betrays a very accurate understanding of how brains work).

[fatimazainab]

Be a Dostoyevsky character: rot in your room! <3

[magdalenepie]

trying to draw them