The Idiot, by Fiodor Dostoyevsky

This is a book about a prince that is reintroduced to the Russian (Saint  Petersburg) society after being ill for several years in Switzerland. He is socially inapt and he does not have the Russian manners that were expected. Hence the name of Idiot.
He is to marry Aglaya Yepanchin, a girl from the upper class, but Nastassya Filippovna, a beautiful woman with a bad reputation, cuts in the way.
It depicts the Russian society of the time. One particular character is named Ganya. He is the stereotype of a man that is not extraordinary, conscientiously knows it and tries to do everything to become extraordinary, even killing.