SteakMedium4871 t1_j5m20o2 wrote
Reply to comment by Brizoot in Rereading Russian Classics in the Shadow of the Ukraine War by zsreport
The author could also write an autobiographical novel called "The Idiot".
KINGGS t1_j5mgudq wrote
This joke didn’t go over well at all did it?
SteakMedium4871 t1_j5mhc8v wrote
U win some, you lose some.
Handyandy58 t1_j5m5jej wrote
If you'd read the story, you'd know that they did.
SteakMedium4871 t1_j5m6zng wrote
The author of the article.
Handyandy58 t1_j5m7igx wrote
The article literally opens with the following lines:
>The first and only time I visited Ukraine was in 2019. My book “The Possessed”—a memoir I had published in 2010, about studying Russian literature—had recently been translated into Russian, along with “The Idiot,” an autobiographical novel, and I was headed to Russia as a cultural emissary, through an initiative of pen America and the U.S. Department of State.
The author of the article did write an autobiographical novel called "The Idiot" and yes it is a reference to Dostoevsky's novel of the same name, as alluded to in the following paragraph.
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