Prince Myshkin

drawing of his character by Dostoevsky

Prince Myshkin, the anti-hero of Dostoevsky’s The Idiot is a simpleton. His innocence is a force of nature. He possesses a perverse trust, his love is a paraphilia considering the norms of not just the society in which he lives but "society in general, and even the species, in its broadest sense--Homo habilis? He's a figure out of the world of early Christianity in which man’s relationship with God was not yet mediated by the Church. Is he a Christ figure? Perhaps not since his presence is even more illuminated by his humanity.

read "The Waste Land" by Francis Levy, The East Hampton Star

and also read "Punk" by Francis Levy, Vol.1 Brooklyn