Can a good man make it in this vile world–this world of pettiness and greed and, well, searching for the “right” spouse? The good man here is Prince Mishky, naive, kind, democratic, epileptic (as was Dostoevsky) and loved by all except those who call him an idiot. The novel flowed, then clogged up, then flowed again. I liked total immersion in 19th C Russia.[8/10]
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