The Idiot and the beauty that does not fit in the world [Eng/Esp]

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I have been making my way through Dostoevsky's work, and I have already spoken about The Brothers Karamazov, with its whirlwind of faith, doubt and parricide, about Crime and Punishment, where Raskolnikov dragged me through the labyrinth of his guilty conscience, and after Notes from Underground with that brutal blow of lucidity and misery, and of course, his Short Stories, small laboratories of the human soul. Today it is my turn to speak about The Idiot, and I confess that I have taken a long time to write these lines, not because I have nothing to say, but because this novel has left me with a strange, almost uncomfortable feeling, as if I had witnessed a miracle that no one else wants to acknowledge.

Dostoevsky insists, again and again, on showing us the human soul and its conscience. He is not interested in textbook heroes or perfect plots but in mud, contradiction and the stifled cry. In The Idiot Dostoevsky takes that obsession to its purest and most painful extreme. Prince Myshkin, the protagonist, is not just any character but a good man, and that, in the world Dostoevsky portrays, is an illness.


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Myshkin returns to Russia from a sanatorium in Switzerland, where he has been treated for his epilepsy and his idiocy. He is naive, compassionate and incapable of holding a grudge. He might seem a fool, but he is not, because he sees more than the others and understands the suffering of others with a clarity that is terrifying.

However, his goodness does not save anyone but instead unleashes passions, jealousy, ruin and death. That is what has shaken me most about this novel, the idea that purity, when it encounters human pettiness, destroys.


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Let us think of Nastasya Filippovna and Aglaya, the two women who love Myshkin, or who believe they love him, and who become trapped in a web of pride, humiliation and desire. Nastasya is the wounded woman who sabotages herself because she does not believe herself worthy of love, while Aglaya is the idealistic young woman who wants a hero and finds a man who cannot belong to anyone, because he belongs to everyone. In between, Rogozhin, the shadow, the possessive passion that ends in crime, and the final scene, with Myshkin and Rogozhin keeping vigil over Nastasya's body, is one of the most harrowing pages I have ever read. There is no judgment and no consolation, only two broken men and a dead woman.


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Dostoevsky wrote The Idiot at a terrible personal moment, when he was full of debts, ill with epilepsy and suffering the death of his daughter, so the novel is crossed by a feverish urgency, by dialogues that flare up and die down like lightning and by scenes that seem like dreams or nightmares.

What has marked me most is the question that beats beneath the whole work: can a truly good man live in this world?


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I have read The Idiot with a mixture of admiration and sadness, for Dostoevsky's courage in creating such a character, without irony, without cynicism, and because, upon closing the book, one suspects that Myshkin is not an idiot. The idiots are the rest of us, those of us who do not know what to do with goodness when we have it before us and those of us who prefer noise, resentment, revenge because that is what we understand.

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โœจ ๐‘ป๐’‰๐’‚๐’๐’Œ๐’” ๐’‡๐’๐’“ ๐’“๐’†๐’‚๐’…๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ! โœจ
๐‘ฐ๐’‡ ๐’š๐’๐’– ๐’…๐’๐’โ€™๐’• ๐’Œ๐’๐’๐’˜ ๐’Ž๐’† ๐’š๐’†๐’•, ๐‘ฐโ€™๐’Ž ๐’‚ ๐‘ช๐’–๐’ƒ๐’‚๐’ ๐’๐’†๐’–๐’“๐’๐’๐’๐’ˆ๐’Š๐’”๐’• ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’˜๐’“๐’Š๐’•๐’†๐’“, ๐’‚ ๐’Ž๐’๐’•๐’‰๐’†๐’“, ๐’‚ ๐’˜๐’๐’Ž๐’‚๐’, ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’‚ ๐’…๐’“๐’†๐’‚๐’Ž๐’†๐’“ ๐’˜๐’‰๐’โ€™๐’” ๐’‡๐’๐’–๐’๐’… ๐’Š๐’ ๐‘ฏ๐’Š๐’—๐’† ๐’‚ ๐’ƒ๐’†๐’‚๐’–๐’•๐’Š๐’‡๐’–๐’ ๐’”๐’‘๐’‚๐’„๐’† ๐’•๐’ ๐’”๐’๐’‚๐’“.
๐‘จ๐’๐’ ๐’•๐’†๐’™๐’• ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’Š๐’Ž๐’‚๐’ˆ๐’†๐’” ๐’‚๐’“๐’† ๐’Ž๐’š ๐’๐’“๐’Š๐’ˆ๐’Š๐’๐’‚๐’ ๐’„๐’“๐’†๐’‚๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’๐’”, 100% ๐’‰๐’–๐’Ž๐’‚๐’-๐’Ž๐’‚๐’…๐’† (๐’๐’ ๐‘จ๐‘ฐ).
๐‘ฉ๐’‚๐’๐’๐’†๐’“ ๐’…๐’†๐’”๐’Š๐’ˆ๐’๐’†๐’… ๐’ƒ๐’š ๐‘ณ๐’–๐’Ž๐’Š๐’Š.
๐‘ณ๐’๐’—๐’†๐’… ๐’•๐’‰๐’Š๐’” ๐’‘๐’๐’”๐’•? ๐‘ผ๐’‘๐’—๐’๐’•๐’†, ๐’„๐’๐’Ž๐’Ž๐’†๐’๐’•, ๐’๐’“ ๐’“๐’†๐’ƒ๐’๐’๐’ˆ ๐’•๐’ ๐’”๐’‘๐’“๐’†๐’‚๐’… ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’˜๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ๐’” ๐’๐’‡ ๐’„๐’“๐’†๐’‚๐’•๐’Š๐’—๐’Š๐’•๐’š! ๐Ÿ’›

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El idiota y la belleza que no cabe en el mundo

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He estado haciendo un recorrido por la obra de Dostoievski, y ya hablรฉ de Los hermanos Karamรกzov, con ese torbellino de fe, duda y parricidio, de Crimen y castigo, donde Raskรณlnikov me arrastrรณ por el laberinto de su conciencia culpable, y despuรฉs de Memorias del subsuelo, con ese golpe brutal de lucidez y miseria, y, claro, de sus Cuentos, pequeรฑos laboratorios del alma humana. Hoy me toca hablar de El idiota, y confieso que he tardado en escribir estas lรญneas, no porque no tenga nada que decir, sino porque esta novela me ha dejado una sensaciรณn extraรฑa, casi incรณmoda, como si hubiera visto un milagro que nadie mรกs quiere reconocer.

Dostoievski se empeรฑa, una y otra vez, en mostrarnos el alma humana y su conciencia. A รฉl no le interesan los hรฉroes de manual ni las tramas perfectas, sino el barro, la contradicciรณn y el grito ahogado. En El idiota, Dostoievski lleva esa obsesiรณn a su extremo mรกs puro y mรกs doloroso. El prรญncipe Myshkin, el protagonista, no es un personaje cualquiera, sino un hombre bueno, y eso, en el mundo que Dostoievski retrata, es una enfermedad.


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Myshkin regresa a Rusia desde un sanatorio en Suiza, donde ha tratado su epilepsia y su idiotez. Es ingenuo, compasivo e incapaz de guardar rencor. Podrรญa parecer un tonto, pero no lo es, porque ve mรกs que los demรกs y comprende el sufrimiento ajeno con una claridad que aterra.

Sin embargo, su bondad no salva a nadie, sino que desata pasiones, celos, ruina y muerte. Eso es lo que mรกs me ha removido de esta novela: la idea de que la pureza, cuando se topa con la mezquindad humana, destruye.


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Pensemos en Nastasia Filรญpovna y en Aglaya, las dos mujeres que aman a Myshkin, o que creen amarlo, y quedan atrapadas en una red de orgullo, humillaciรณn y deseo. Nastasia es la mujer herida que se sabotea a sรญ misma porque no se cree digna de amor, mientras que Aglaya es la joven idealista que quiere un hรฉroe y se encuentra con un hombre que no puede pertenecer a nadie, porque pertenece a todos. En medio, Rogozhin, la sombra, la pasiรณn posesiva que termina en crimen, y la escena final, con Myshkin y Rogozhin velando el cuerpo de Nastasia, es una de las pรกginas mรกs sobrecogedoras que he leรญdo. No hay juicio ni consuelo, solo dos hombres rotos y una mujer muerta.


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Dostoievski escribiรณ El idiota en un momento personal terrible, cuando estaba lleno de deudas, enfermo de epilepsia y sufriendo la muerte de su hija, por lo que la novela estรก atravesada por una urgencia febril, por diรกlogos que se encienden y se apagan como relรกmpagos y por escenas que parecen sueรฑos o pesadillas.

Lo que mรกs me ha marcado es la pregunta que late bajo toda la obra: ยฟpuede un hombre verdaderamente bueno vivir en este mundo?


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He leรญdo El idiota con una mezcla de admiraciรณn y tristeza, por la valentรญa de Dostoievski al crear un personaje asรญ, sin ironรญa, sin cinismo, y porque, al cerrar el libro, uno sospecha que Myshkin no es un idiota. Los idiotas somos los demรกs, los que no sabemos quรฉ hacer con la bondad cuando la tenemos delante y los que preferimos el ruido, el rencor, la venganza, porque es lo que entendemos.

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โœจ ยก๐‘ฎ๐’“๐’‚๐’„๐’Š๐’‚๐’” ๐’‘๐’๐’“ ๐’๐’†๐’†๐’“! โœจ
๐‘บ๐’Š ๐’‚รบ๐’ ๐’๐’ ๐’Ž๐’† ๐’„๐’๐’๐’๐’„๐’†๐’”: ๐’”๐’๐’š ๐’๐’†๐’–๐’“รณ๐’๐’๐’ˆ๐’‚ ๐’š ๐’†๐’”๐’„๐’“๐’Š๐’•๐’๐’“๐’‚ ๐’„๐’–๐’ƒ๐’‚๐’๐’‚, ๐’Ž๐’‚๐’…๐’“๐’†, ๐’Ž๐’–๐’‹๐’†๐’“ ๐’š ๐’”๐’รฑ๐’‚๐’…๐’๐’“๐’‚ ๐’’๐’–๐’† ๐’†๐’๐’„๐’๐’๐’•๐’“รณ ๐’†๐’ ๐‘ฏ๐’Š๐’—๐’† ๐’–๐’ ๐’‰๐’†๐’“๐’Ž๐’๐’”๐’ ๐’†๐’”๐’‘๐’‚๐’„๐’Š๐’ ๐’‘๐’‚๐’“๐’‚ ๐’—๐’๐’๐’‚๐’“.
๐‘ฌ๐’ ๐’•๐’†๐’™๐’•๐’ ๐’š ๐’๐’‚๐’” ๐’Š๐’Žรก๐’ˆ๐’†๐’๐’†๐’” ๐’”๐’๐’ ๐’…๐’† ๐’Ž๐’Š ๐’‚๐’–๐’•๐’๐’“รญ๐’‚, 100% ๐’‰๐’–๐’Ž๐’‚๐’๐’๐’” (๐’”๐’Š๐’ ๐‘ฐ๐‘จ).
๐‘ฉ๐’‚๐’๐’๐’†๐’“ ๐’…๐’Š๐’”๐’†รฑ๐’‚๐’…๐’ ๐’‘๐’๐’“ ๐‘ณ๐’–๐’Ž๐’Š๐’Š.
ยฟ๐‘ป๐’† ๐’ˆ๐’–๐’”๐’•รณ ๐’†๐’”๐’•๐’‚ ๐’‘๐’–๐’ƒ๐’๐’Š๐’„๐’‚๐’„๐’Šรณ๐’? ๐‘ฝ๐’๐’•๐’‚, ๐’„๐’๐’Ž๐’†๐’๐’•๐’‚ ๐’ ๐’“๐’†๐’ƒ๐’๐’๐’ˆ๐’–๐’†๐’‚ ๐’‘๐’‚๐’“๐’‚ ๐’‚๐’š๐’–๐’…๐’‚๐’“ ๐’‚ ๐’…๐’†๐’”๐’‘๐’๐’†๐’ˆ๐’‚๐’“ ๐’†๐’”๐’•๐’‚๐’” ๐’‚๐’๐’‚๐’”. ๐Ÿ’›

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