This novel opens with a lengthy discourse on the evils of capital punishment inspired by the author's own experience in front of a firing squad --the sentence was commuted at the last moment.
This novel opens with a lengthy discourse on the evils of capital punishment inspired by the author's own experience in front of a firing squad --the sentence was commuted at the last moment. Now a young man thrust into the simultaneously sheltered and uncomprimising world of the Russian aristocracy, the title character had been spared of the grim realities of the world because of the severe epilepsy that struck him at an early age. FTP name this second of  Dostoevski's great novels following his imprisonment for subversion, concerning Prince Myshkin.
This novel opens with a lengthy discourse on the evils of capital punishment inspired by the author's own experience in front of a firing squad --the sentence was commuted at the last moment.
The Idiot