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THE DREAM OF A RIDICULOUS MAN

THE DREAM OF A RIDICULOUS MAN

FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY

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Publisher:
PENGUIN CLASSICS
Year of publication:
2025
Subject:
Classic fiction
ISBN:
978-0-241-74691-2
Pages:
144
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I am a ridiculous man. They call me mad now. That would be a promotion in rank

A delusional man whose strange dream changes his life; a self-justifying husband who causes his wife's suicide; a witness to a young girl's ruin; a writer who stretches out on a gravestone and listens to the gossip of the dead ... the narrators of these four confessional tales show how little we understand ourselves.

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