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...lamb of The Lamb is 22-year-old Xavier Dartigelongue, a would-be seminary student. Like Dostoevsky's "idiot" Prince Myshkin, Xavier is a fool in Christ, a saint somehow leading himself to destruction. Xavier feels himself spiritually handcuffed to any human soul in need. On the train ride to the seminary, the handcuffs click when haughty Jean de Mirbel enters Xavier's compartment and reveals that he means to desert his wife...
...Idiot (French). A skeletal but sensitive reproduction of Dostoevsky's novel about a modern Christ. Memorable for the work of France's new idol Gérard Philippe, as Prince Myshkin, and of Edwige Feuill...
...Double, or split personality, such as Raskolnikov of Crime and Punishment, "thirsts for power and is powerless, he desires to torture and to be tortured, to debase himself and to debase others, to be proud and to humble himself." Dominance of one trait characterizes the Meek (quixotic Prince Myshkin of The Idiot}, as also the Self-Willed (the murderer Verkhovenski in The Possessed...