“If you read Dostoevsky’s novel “The Idiot”, skipping everything that normal people consider brilliant, then you will get a pretty decent detective story. Like Agatha Christie. How else can I read Dostoevsky while lying on the beach? Of course, a meticulous interlocutor will ask, what is Dostoevsky doing on the beach? In Turkey? Well, there's Dontsov or, at worst, Dumas... Firstly, someone forgot Dostoevsky on a beach lounger. And secondly, this someone before me invented a new way of reading brilliant psychological texts - pieces with the famous arguments of the Russian classic about the meaning of life and the essence of being were simply torn out of the book, leaving a bare plot. I coped with the shortened Dostoevsky in about forty minutes and again I started to get bored..."