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Great Essay!

Have you read Dostoevsky's the idiot? It dwels deep into this topic especially the character nastasya.

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Thank you. I haven't read The Idiot, but I've read another Dostoevsky story, Notes from Underground, which explores similar themes. In fact, Notes was originally one of the stories I used in the essay to illustrate the Imp, but I had to remove it for pacing reasons.

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Notes from the underground in my opinion is very one dimensional as the narrator only represents one aspect of thet freedom also the fact we don't get the background of why he acts in such a way. The idiot shows different perspectives of freedom while simultaneously explaining each characters in detail.

https://redwheelbarrow.substack.com/p/the-idiot-review?s=r

I wrote a review on a while back, give it a read if you have the time.

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