"The Dream of a Ridiculous Man" (Russian: Сон смешного человека, Son smeshnovo cheloveka) is a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky written in 1877. It chronicles the experiences of a man who decides that there is nothing of any value in the world.
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Prestige, intimate, earnest and grave.
- unpretentiousprestige
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- First published
- 1961
- Pages
- 191
- Publisher
- CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Foreign Languages Pub. House, Kessinger Publishing
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- French, English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9782742700745
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“I am a ridiculous person.”
Russian novelist Fyodor Mikhailovitch Dostoyevsky was a journalist and short-story writer, whose psychological penetration into the human soul profoundly influenced the 20th century novel. Dostoevsky's novels have much autobiographical elements, but ultimately they deal with moral and philosophical questions. He presented interacting characters with contrasting views or ideas about freedom of choice, Socialism, atheisms, good and evil, happiness and so forth. Dostoevsky's central obsession was God, whom his characters constantly search through painful errors and humiliations. ([Source](http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/fdosto.htm)) Dostoyevsky's literary output explores human psychology in the trou
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