The Dream of a Ridiculous Man - Softcover

Fyodor Mikhailovich, Dostoyevsky,

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1544767706 ISBN 13: 9781544767703

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

The story opens with the narrator wandering the streets of St. Petersburg. He contemplates how he has always been a ridiculous person, and also, how recently, he has come to the realization that nothing much matters to him any more. It is this revelation that leads him to the idea of suicide. The narrator of the story reveals that he had bought a revolver months previous with the intent of shooting himself in the head.

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About the Author

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (11 November 1821– 9 February 1881) is considered one of two greatest prose writers of Russian literature, alongside close contemporary Leo Tolstoy. Dostoevsky's works have had a profound and lasting effect on twentieth-century thought and world literature. Dostoevsky's chief ouevre, mainly novels, explore the human psychology in the disturbing political, social and spiritual context of his 19th-century Russian society. Considered by many as a founder or precursor of 20th-century existentialism, his Notes from Underground (1864), written in the anonymous, embittered voice of the Underground Man, is considered by Walter Kaufmann as the "best overture for existentialism ever written."

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1544767706
• ISBN 13: 9781544767703
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 26
• Editor: Sir Angels