The novel The Idiot (1868) was conceived and written by Dostoevsky in Switzerland, in the homeland of the great illustrator Rousseau, and for this reason it is convenient to remember his contemporary Voltaire, author of The Innocent, a book that was one of the first attempts to show the " ideal person "in this imperfect world. "The main idea ..." Dostoevsky wrote of his novel, "is to portray a positively beautiful person. There is nothing more difficult in the world ..." It was not for this that Dostoevsky showed the world the "Prince of Christ" so that we do not forget: "Compassion is the most important and, perhaps, the only law of the existence of all humanity."