Through the pages of "The Idiot," Dostoevsky once again has the opportunity to present us with the image of Russia of his time and to satirize people, things, and situations in his own ingenious way. This novel, which has as its central hero the desperately naive and forgiving, but by no means "idiotic," Prince Myshkin, was written entirely away from Russia, at a time when the great writer was wandering desperately in Western Europe, trying to cope with his miserable finances, the epilepsy that had plagued him for years, his rejection as a writer by the critics of his time, and the hostility of the Tsarist regime. His hero is led to destruction, not because he lacks intelligence, but because he is so emotionally vulnerable that he is crushed under the weight of unbearable reality. Using his imagination, Dostoevsky places his characters in extreme conditions, focusing on the idealized figure of Myshkin, the fatal beauty Nastasya Filippovna, and the passionate Parfyon Rogozhin, revealing to us the depths of their souls and confirming once again the timelessness of his work.