Идиот vs Voskresenīe: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Russian fiction, Russian literature, Russia, Continental european fiction, Social conditions, Historical Fiction
Идиот
Inspired by an image of Christ's suffering, Fyodor Dostoyevsky set out to portray "a truly beautiful soul" colliding with the brutal reality of contemporary society. Returning to St. Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium,…
1 film adaptation
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Voskresenīe
Resurrection, the last full-length novel written by Leo Tolstoy, was published in 1899 after ten years in the making. A humanitarian cause—the pacifist Doukhobor sect, persecuted by the Russian government, needed funds…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Идиот has the widest readership — 230503 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Идиот | Voskresenīe | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.2 (230503) | 4.2 (29824) |
| Google Books | 5.0 (1) | — |
Reception
| Идиот | Voskresenīe | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 230503 | 29824 |
| Editions | 437 | 250 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | — |
| Want to read | — | 57785 |
| Reading it now | — | 2535 |
| Written reviews | 1 | 2484 |
| Wikipedia attention | 31339 | — |
| Pages | 655 | 572 |