The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Narrated by Jesse Livingston

"The Dream of a Ridiculous Man" 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. Slipping into nihilism with the "terrible anguish", he is determined to commit suicide. A chance encounter with a young girl, however, begins the man on a journey that re-instills a love for his fellow man.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Author's Republic
• Release date: Jul 4, 2019
• ISBN: 9781982762193

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881) was a Russian author and journalist. He spent four years in prison, endured forced military service and was nearly executed for the crime of reading works forbidden by the government. He battled a gambling addiction that once left him a beggar, and he suffered ill health, including epileptic seizures. Despite these challenges, Dostoevsky wrote fiction possessed of groundbreaking, even daring, social and psychological insight and power. Novels like Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Brothers Karamazov, have won the author acclaim from figures ranging from Franz Kafka to Ernest Hemingway, Friedrich Nietzsche to Virginia Woolf.

Reviews for The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

[Asen Georgiev · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Absolutely brilliant! The search for meaning in one of the most powerful literature representations I’ve enjoyed