The Idiot (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
- First Published: 1868
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: Mid-nineteenth century
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Love or romance, Murder or homicide, Nineteenth century, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, Blackmail, Greed, Gossip, Russia or Russian people, Princes or princesses, Epilepsy
- Locales: St. Petersburg, Russia
Places Discussed
*St. Petersburg. Russia’s capital city and cultural and political center of Russia, where Prince Myshkin arrives, and where much of the novel’s action takes place. The character of the city is very un-Russian. Traditional Russian cities grew up in concentric rings around their central fortresses—a pattern still visible in modern Moscow, with its three ring roads (boulevard, garden, and outer rings), linked by radial avenues to the city center, the Kremlin. By contrast, St. Petersburg is laid out in a Western-style grid pattern that was established by...
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