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But we do not feel that the novelist has afflicted them with incredible blindness, for we know, as we read, that we too should call Myshkin an idiot if we met him.
Criticisms and Interpretations. III. From the London “Times 1917
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The mouse strain has been dubbed Myshkin after a Dostoevsky character in
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But Diaghilev was like a person in many novels – Baron de Charlus by way of Prince Myshkin and Count Vronsky.
Diaghilev: Lord of the dance Andrew O'Hagan 2010
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The biographical Dostoevsky as much a character as Prince Myshkin.
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Prinz Myshkin, MunichEven non-vegetarians would be impressed with this restaurant.
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In that novel, the hero, Prince Myshkin, possessed such goodness he was judged insane and sent to a sanitarium.
'Idiot Brother': Silly, Satirical and Smart John Anderson 2011
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The same Dostoyevsky, in his novel The Idiot (1869), puts on the lips of his hero, Prince Myshkin, the famous words: "The world will be saved by beauty."
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The biographical Dostoevsky as much a character as Prince Myshkin.
Lance Mannion: 2010
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Even if you recover fully you are still far from being the next prince Myshkin, who despite being of the same mental awareness as yourself, at least had fans and admirers.
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Myshkin, Rogoshin, he says, chortles and waves himself away like a fly on the wall.
The Whole Earth Marcus Speh 2010
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