How to Read Dostoevsky's The Idiot

📚 Read the Great Books with Hardcore Literature:   / hardcoreliterature   ———————————— 0:00 why read The Idiot by Dostoevsky? 2:00 Dostoevsky book club lectures 4:00 first reader reviews of The Idiot 5:00 what is the story of the novel? 6:00 Dostoevsky’s political arrest 8:00 the writer faces the firing squad 10:00 Dostoevsky on the death penalty 12:00 Prince Myshkin’s guillotine speech 14:00 philosophy, psychology, realism 15:00 novel as polyphonic carnival 16:00 great difficulty of Dostoevsky 17:00 dealing with character names 18:00 reading Dostoevsky aloud 19:00 reading philosophical fiction 21:00 my first reading of Dostoevsky 22:00 long-term rereading routine 23:00 Dostoevsky’s greatest works 26:00 epiphany from facing death 28:00 on living our lives to the full 30:00 how a minute can be eternity 32:00 wisdom from surviving death 34:00 art captures the transcendental 36:00 cleansing the doors of perception 38:00 happiness, progression, ideals 39:00 we’re Hamlet in the graveyard 41:00 how to appreciate your life 42:00 life when writing The Idiot 44:00 sublimating pain into great art 45:00 the Bible unlocks Dostoevsky 47:00 Holbein’s Christ in the Tomb 49:00 art as divine manifestation 50:00 Dostoevsky and religion 52:00 the rise of Russian nihilism 54:00 facing the accursed questions 56:00 loving vs hating Dostoevsky 58:00 Bible as bedrock of tradition 59:00 principles for the art of reading 1:00:00 how can death be overcome? 1:02:00 the beauty of Prince Myshkin 1:04:00 would society embrace Christ? 1:05:00 cast of characters in The Idiot 1:07:00 Dostoevskian characterisation 1:08:00 the Sermon on the Mount 1:09:00 Myshkin and Jean Valjean 1:11:00 are Christian ethics weakness? 1:13:00 Nietzsche vs Christianity 1:14:00 why was Christ crucified? 1:15:00 why love your enemies? 1:16:00 meaning of carrying the cross 1:17:00 can beauty save the world? 1:19:00 good can’t exist without evil 1:20:00 theodicy in the book of Job 1:22:00 Prince Myshkin’s Christianity 1:23:00 striving after high ideals 1:24:00 on the Russian holy fool 1:26:00 Shakespeare vs Cervantes 1:28:00 Myshkin and Don Quixote 1:29:00 Pushkin’s Sad Knight poem 1:30:00 society vs the visionaries 1:32:00 best translation of Dostoevsky? 1:35:00 The Idiot book club lectures 1:36:00 how to read multiple books 1:37:00 Dostoevsky, Sun Tzu, Blake 1:39:00 reading with the book club