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The Idiot

Elif Batuman

A The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begins corresponding wi...

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Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

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Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Conan expressed enthusiasm for The Idiot, joking that it was his life story and urging the host to read it.

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I love it. I love it. Yeah. Have you read The Idiot? I Idiot? That's my life story. Read it. I'm living it. What are you talking about? Hey, Conan, have you read The Idiot? Duh.

— Episode: Don’t Look A Gift Horse Meat In The Mout...

Episode: Don’t Look A Gift Horse Meat In The Mouth Yet Agai...

Conan expressed enthusiasm for The Idiot, joking that it was his life story and urging the host to read it.

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I love it. I love it. Yeah. Have you read The Idiot? I Idiot? That's my life story. Read it. I'm living it. What are you talking about? Hey, Conan, have you read The Idiot? Duh.

Bad Friends

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Bad Friends

Andrew Santino mentioned the book in three episodes, first noting that memorizing it word for word would be difficult. He later suggested it as a possible read instead of playing video games, and finally said he had read it, showing a casual interest in literary or philosophical works. The overall tone was informal and not a strong endorsement.

Episode: What Happened In Vegas w/ Dax Flame

It was mentioned as an example of something hard to memorize word for word.

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Memorizing Dostoyevsky's The Idiot word for word is hard.

Episode: Brotherly Love With Steebee

It was mentioned as a potential book to read as an alternative to playing video games.

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We could read. Divide up the video game. We could read a book. Yeah, I could read The Idiot or...

Episode: I Want To Be Ninja Returns!

Andrew mentioned reading this book by Dostoevsky, suggesting an interest in philosophical literature.

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I read The Idiot.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

Dr. Peterson mentioned this book as an example of Dostoevsky's use of narrative to create an embodied figure of virtue, where the arguments for moral pronouncements are underdeveloped.

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dorsdewski also explores that in the idiot because that's Prince Michigan right it's a Christ analog for all of us purposes right but dorsdewski because he uses narrative rather than philosophy is abl...

— Episode: 321. A Conversation So Intense It Might...

Episode: 321. A Conversation So Intense It Might Transcend...

Dr. Peterson mentioned this book as an example of Dostoevsky's use of narrative to create an embodied figure of virtue, where the arguments for moral pronouncements are underdeveloped.

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dorsdewski also explores that in the idiot because that's Prince Michigan right it's a Christ analog for all of us purposes right but dorsdewski because he uses narrative rather than philosophy is able to produce an embodied figure who exemplifies virtue even though the propositional grounds for his moral pronouncements are relatively and I what undeveloped

Episode: 217. Talking with Russians | Mikhail Avdeev

It was mentioned as an example of Dostoevsky's work where ethical characters, despite losing arguments with rationalists, can still be seen as 'better men'.

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his most ethical characters can lose every argument with rationalists and still be better men and you see that in the book because the book allows them to be embodied rather than mirror carriers of propositional arguments and beauty is non-propositional and so it goes under our our our narcissistic and blind rational intellect that overvalues its ability that's the spirit of lucifer that milton warned everyone about it goes under that and grabs you and if you pay attention to that then it's a it's a pointer to what is beyond your understanding

Adam Carolla Show

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Adam Carolla Show

Godfrey revealed that he had read Dostoevsky's work on Russia, specifically 'The Idiot', in preparation for his comedy set there.

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I've on the terrible Ivan Grozny. That's what they call him. I've on the terrible do Chayefsky. I've read Kafka. I've read I've a lot of Russian shit.

— Episode: Godfrey on Russia, The Brady Bunch, and...

Episode: Godfrey on Russia, The Brady Bunch, and Evel Kniev...

Godfrey revealed that he had read Dostoevsky's work on Russia, specifically 'The Idiot', in preparation for his comedy set there.

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I've on the terrible Ivan Grozny. That's what they call him. I've on the terrible do Chayefsky. I've read Kafka. I've read I've a lot of Russian shit.

The Daily Stoic

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The Daily Stoic

The speaker mentioned their personal extracurricular translation of Dostoevsky's *The Idiot* in their youth, highlighting their interest in translation.

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I added my own extracurricular translation of the idiot by myself for no one but me. I was just interested in how you could translate and basically a prose poem into a similar kind of thing for Englis...

— Episode: Andrew Sullivan on The Classics, Indepen...

Episode: Andrew Sullivan on The Classics, Independence, and...

The speaker mentioned their personal extracurricular translation of Dostoevsky's *The Idiot* in their youth, highlighting their interest in translation.

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I added my own extracurricular translation of the idiot by myself for no one but me. I was just interested in how you could translate and basically a prose poem into a similar kind of thing for English

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