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"How much strength! How many wonderful places! How good is the "idiot"! Yes, and all faces are very bright, variegated - only illuminated by electric fire, in which the most ordinary, familiar face, ordinary colors get supernatural shine, and they would like to re -examine them. " This was one of the first reviews for the novel by F. M. Dostoevsky, or rather, on the first part of it, published in 1868 in the journal Russian Bulletin. Then there will be enthusiastic and negative reviews, and the doubts of the writer himself in the success of the "idiot", and the recognition of the public ...
And exactly one hundred years, the artist Vitaliy Goryayaev will turn to the novel after a hundred years and as if it would really illuminate Dostoevsky’s heroes with too bright electric fire. He will create dark and bright faces, fucked, broken, tanned, confused lines, form the figures and convince them to interact. Goryaev’s drawings will make the tension of ideas and passions, the very essence of Dostoevsky’s novel, so original and freely transferred by a pencil on paper