The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
A Meek Young Girl
Another Man's WifeThe Dream of a Ridiculous Man
A Meek Young Girl
Another Man's Wife
These tales not only show the divergence of the great Russian genius, but his humorous stories reveal him from an entirely unknown side in which he excelled no less that in his searching, restless psychological realism.
Particular attention should be drawn to the Dream of a Ridiculous Manthe Dream of a Ridiculous Man which shows Dostoyevsky at his very greatest and can in fact, be considered as the quintessence of his manner, method and philosophy.
Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky was a Russian writer, essayist and philosopher, perhaps most recognized today for his novels Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov.
Dostoyevsky's literary output explores human psychology in the troubled political, social and spiritual context of 19th-century Russian society. Considered by many as a founder or precursor of 20th-century existentialism, his Notes from Underground (1864), written in the embittered voice of the anonymous "underground man", was called by Walter Kaufmann the "best overture for existentialism ever written."
His tombstone reads "Verily, Verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit." from John 12:24, which is also the epigraph of his final novel, The Brothers Karamazov.
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