Prince Myshkin Earth, which was created perhaps solely for the emergence of that Being." Myshkin remains silent in response to Ippolit's sarcastic barbs about Christian humility, and does not make any attempt to refute his convoluted atheistic arguments. When engaging only with each other, the Prince's quietism and sincere empathy occasionally elicit a corresponding consciousness in Ippolit, but he always later reverts back to his cynical bitterness. Prince Myshkin Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin (pre-reform Russian: ; post-reform ) is the protagonist of Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel "The Idiot". Dostoevsky wanted to create a character that was "entirely positive... with an absolutely beautiful nature",
The Gift of Asher Lev the Ladover group . The novel may also point toward the succession of the Boyan dynasty, in which a son-in-law of the late rebbe, Orthodox but not Hasidic, approved having his son be the next rebbe. Asher Lev – narrator; a middle-aged painter and Ladover Jew who resides in the south of France. Devorah Lev – Asher's wife, an author of children's books. As a small child, Devorah was hidden in a Paris apartment for two years in order to evade the Nazi concentration camps, in which both of her parents perished. Rocheleh Lev – Asher and Devorah's intelligent eleven-year-old