Here is the sentence Alexey was looking for:

"And Prince Myshkin, in turn, had for his grandson the character recently created by the contemporary Soviet writer Mikhail Zoshchenko, the type of cheerful imbecile, muddling through a police-state totalitarian world, imbecility being the last refuge in that kind of world."

Andrea

(I think one comma in there may be a typo, but this quote faithfully reproduces the text.)

2010/9/29 Alexey Sklyarenko <skylark05@mail.ru>
On second thought, one sentence of the original English text will do. In translation that sentence (closing the paragraph) goes:
 
У князя Мышкина, в свою очередь, есть внук, недавно созданный современным советским писателем Михаилом Зощенко, - тип бодрого дебила, живущего на задворках полицейского тоталитарного государства, где слабоумие стало последним прибежищем человека.
 
Thanks,
Alexey Sklyarenko
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