The Idiot

“Beauty will save the world” --- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot “Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.” --- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot The Idiot is a novel written by the 19th-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was first published serially in The Russian Messenger between 1868 and 1869. The Idiot, alongside some of Dostoyevsky's other works, is often considered one of the most brilliant literary achievements of the "Golden Age" of Russian literature.