Karamazov wrote:
I’ve been wondering about Prince Myshkin from Dostoyevsky’s ‘The Idiot’ for a while: I’d have to re-read the novel though... and it’s not really a positive life-affirming depiction of so.
Also, Pierre Bezukhov from War and Peace:
"Pierre had come just at dinner-time and was sitting awkwardly in the middle of the drawing-room, on the first chair he had come accross, blocking the way from everyone. The countess tried to make him talk, but he went on naively looking around through his spectacles as if in search for somebody, and answered all her questions in monosyllables. He was in the way and he was the only one who did not notice the fact."
"Pierre's mind was in such a confused state that the word 'stroke' suggested to him a blow from something. He looked at Prince Vasili in perplexity, and only later grasped that a stroke was an attack of illness."
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Being obsessed with Asperger's Syndrome is a very Escherian place to be at right now.