The Idiot
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The Idiot is a novel written by the Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky in 1869. The original Russian title is Идиот, "Idiot", but the Russian language does not use definite articles.
Dostoevsky considered the title Prince Myshkin before deciding upon the current one.
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Film, TV or theatrical adaptations and references
- Several filmmakers have produced adaptations of the novel, among them Akira Kurosawa's The Idiot (1951 film), The Idiot (1958 film), a Russian version by Ivan Pyryev, and Mani Kaul's Hindi version, Idiot (1992 film).
- Christian Bale's character in The Machinist is seeing reading The Idiot in the opening minutes of the film
- In 2003 Russian State Television produced a 10-hour TV-series of the work.
- In 1999 Czech director Saša Gedeon produced a modern cinematic reinterpretation of The Idiot entitled The Return of the Idiot (Návrat idiota).
- The Polish director Andrzej Wajda adapted the last chapter of The Idiot as the feature film Nastasja in 1994.
- The Russian composer Nikolai Myaskovsky planned an opera on The Idiot during World War I, but did not complete it.
- The Harlan Ellison short story Prince Myshkin and Hold the Relish features a friendly debate on Dostoevsky and The Idiot between the narrator and a vendor at Pink's Hot Dogs in Los Angeles.
- The famous Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky planned an adaptation after The Idiot, but had died before it was realized.
- The German novelist Hermann Hesse wrote in 1919 a short piece about the book called Thoughts on The Idiot of Dostoevsky, later released in a compilation of essays called My Belief: Essays on Life and Art.
- In Act 1, Scene 2 of Mel Brooks' musical The Producers, Max Bialystock jokingly addresses Leo Bloom as "Prince Miskin."
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