One character in this book describes witnessing an execution in France to argue that execution is wo
One character in this book describes witnessing an execution in France to argue that execution is worse than murder because it takes away hope. In this novel, a character with tuberculosis fails to load his gun properly after reading a suicide note in which he describes "no trace of beauty" in a copy of Holbein's painting of the dead Christ. Ippolit Terentyev appears in this novel, whose protagonist breaks a vase at a party announcing his betrothal to Aglaya. The protagonist of this novel returns by train to Russia from a Swiss sanatorium, and meets Rogozhin, who murders Nastasya Filippovna. For 10 points, name this novel about the epileptic Prince Myshkin, written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
One character in this book describes witnessing an execution in France to argue that execution is worse than murder because it takes away hope.
The Idiot