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Facts about The Idiot by Dostoevsky
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Dostoevsky's 1869 novel explores themes of Christian redemption and moral innocence through a protagonist widely interpreted as embodying Christ-like qualities in contemporary Russian society.
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Prince Myshkin, the protagonist of Dostoevsky's 1869 novel, returns to Russia after four years of treatment for epilepsy in a Swiss sanatorium.
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Between 1868 and 1869, Dostoevsky serialized The Idiot in the Russian journal The Russian Messenger, completing the 732-page novel in just sixteen months.