Re:“The Idiot” Savant: On Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Idiot
by sp332 on Thursday May 10, 2018 @03:56PM
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I think the title is playing on the phrase "idiot savant" to indicate Dostoevsky himself, as the savant who wrote "The Idiot".
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Re:“The Idiot” Savant: On Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Idiot
by drunkenmonkey on Thursday May 10, 2018 @08:50PM
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I think the main character is a Savant, who others view as an idiot. The title and its characterization are ironic. He is the smartest character in the book, but viewed as an idiot, due to a consistently ignorant society.
Not unlike, for example, Sufi poets who claim to be gods and then are humiliated and executed for heresy. His label of “idiot” is his execution. A crowd crying to crucify Christ.