Prince Myshkin from Dostoevsky’s novel “Idiot” is a renowned misfit character
I’m a misfit. Always been one, always will be. Yet often, when things got too difficult, I would think, “I wish I was normal, like everyone else.”
The thing is there’s no such thing as normal.… Read the rest
Still of Keira Knightley and Michael Fassbender in A Dangerous Method – © 2011 – Sony Pictures Classics
In a recent David Cronenberg’s film A Dangerous method Keira Knightley portrays a rich Russian Jewish girl receiving a treatment at a mental health clinic in Switzerland.… Read the rest
Prince Myshkin after witnessing the death of Nastasya Filippovna, I. Glazunov, 1966
Recently, President Putin published an article on the necessity of creating a must-read list of a hundred Russian books that would define the nation’s cultural legacy.
I thought about what books to put in that list and decided to present to you my top 20 of Russian books (20 is more manageable, for I can’t have a hundred of favourite books).… Read the rest