Katya Mills’s Reviews > The Idiot > Status Update

the year of the tiger advances

i see in the protagonist

myself. awkward at the party

inflated with passion of they convictions

breaking a cherished vase

spiritually tested psychosocially

admonished. nearing the end

of this unruly chapter

i laugh and go to bed

the description of a young man Ippolit who is dying from consumption is both terrifying and heart rendering. he cannot get out of his own way as he stumbles toward death. now he's firing on the Prince as an easy target!

Nastasya Fillipovna is wrestling the dinner party with her status and other peoples judgment of her... Roghozin tried to put a price on her to keep her from marrying Ganya and Ganya himself is a bit of a bastard and not in love with her...only the Prince is there among them whom she feels she can trust with her heart. the so-called 'idiot'.

re-reading this edition which is a much better translation than the cheapo copy i was struggling with on my kindle. now i read the scene where the general, in trying to impress Nastasya F inserts himself into a story he read to impress her... he suggests he was smoking a cigar on a train across from 2 ladies and a lapdog and they threw his cigar out the window and he then grabbed the lapdog and did the same!

great!