Word: myshkin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...play is Montgomery's first work, perhaps autobiographical and certainly immature; it doesn't build to any resolution of crises, only defines the forces it presents more clearly as the evening progresses. What Montgomery dramatizes are his characters' most heightened psychological confrontations, particularly as they affect his Prince Myshkin--a bloodhound who seeks out people's torments, not their persons; a self-deceived martyr hoping to relieve the suffering of mankind while he seems to further it. Montgomery creates a sexual triangle among the coarse Rogochin, the passionate, misused and vengeful Natasha, and the sexless Myshkin, undercutting any examination...
Adam, in short, possesses some of the manic gifts that used to be associated with divine madness. Like Dostoevsky's Prince Myshkin, he sees only absolutes in a world of ostensible reason. Almost singlehanded, he gives gnarled life to this book, the third novel of Israeli Author Yoram Kaniuk...