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James Ivory

For its naïve Prince Myshkin, who Ruth Jhabvala said reminded her of me (which is apt, I guess).

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Helen McCrory

I’ve read a lot of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky and Chekhov, but I loved this for Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin, who is so disarmingly pure. I loved his descriptions of how he saw the world, and how he saw life, and was so surprised and delighted by the fact that it makes you giggle.

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James Ivory

For its naïve Prince Myshkin, who Ruth Jhabvala said reminded her of me (which is apt, I guess).

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