Fyodor Dostoevsky Collection: The Wedding, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Walter Zimmerman (Reading)

"The Wedding": Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky is considered one of the greatest Russian writers. His works have had a profound and lasting effect on 20th-century literature. His psychological penetration into the human soul had, in novels like Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, a profound influence on the 20th century novel. He also wrote a number of brilliant short stories along these same lines. "The Wedding" is one of his best.

"The Dream of a Ridiculous Man": Dostoevsky is primarily known for his monumental works like Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov. However, he also wrote many excellent shorter works that embody the same exploration of human psychology on a smaller scale. "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man" is one of his best short pieces. Virginia Woolf says of Dostoevsky, "Out of Shakespeare there is no more exciting reading."

Genres: Classics, Fiction, Ebooks, Russia, Literature, Audiobook

Audio CD

Published December 4, 2012

About the author

Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский (Russian)

Works, such as the novels Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), of Russian writer Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky or Dostoevski combine religious mysticism with profound psychological insight.

Very influential writings of Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin included Problems of Dostoyevsky's Works (1929),

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky composed short stories, essays, and journals. His literature explores humans in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century and engages with a variety of philosophies and themes. People most acclaimed his Demons(1872) .

Many literary critics rate him among the greatest authors of world literature and consider multiple books written by him to be highly influential masterpieces. They consider his Notes from Underground of the first existentialist literature. He is also well regarded as a philosopher and theologian.

See also:
Russian → Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский
French → Fédor Dostoïevski
French → Fiodor Dostoïevski
Spanish → Fiódor Dostoyevski
Portuguese → Fiódor Dostoiévski

Reviews

[Leen Mohamad]

"The consciousness of life is higher than life ,the knowledge of the laws of happines is higher than happiness- that is what must be fought..!"

[Fadri Mokolintad]

I read "The Brothers Karamazov" part.

Oo what a fine story!

[Kristjan]

Ninety-six hours of classic fiction. From sheer volume alone this is probably worth it. The performance was decent: character voices were great but the narrative voice was a little off for me (call it a push). The stories are of course classics … one of which (Crime and Punishment) I had already read in High School many eons ago and didn’t particularly care for it (I have issues with the protagonist); however, I recently had the Brothers Karamazov recommended to me and rather than reading through the another huge story by a famous author for whom I should appreciate his works more than I do, I figured an audiobook would be a good way to do this …

And I was absolutely spot on here. In my mind, it is the only way to “casually” read Dostoyevsky (Yes, I know that is heresy) … save the reading for your lit class when you have to dig into weird philosophical concepts that you have small interest in. As an audiobook, it was really wasn’t so bad.

I was given this free advance listener copy (ALC) audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

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[Jorge Prado]

Siempre enorme

Salvo algunos "errores de dedo", vale la pena, leer una de las obras cumbres de la literatura universal, y después, una novela corta muy del estilo del maestro Dostoyevski.
Si no lo han leído, valga como presentación. Si ya lo han hecho, como yo, el placer de leerlo de nuevo es inmenso.

[hernán gómez]

Maestro de la prosa!

Sin lugar a dudas, uno de los genios de la PROSA CLÁSICA, que riqueza de argumentación, estilo único, debería ser lectura obligatoria!

[Bianca Ionescu]

I enjoyed more the psychological analysis in the first part than the antihero in the 2nd one

[Alihan Ateş]

my favorite book. it is amazing

[Ém Aà]

Good

[Oda]

One of the best books ever read

[Dr. Jon Pirtle]

It's one thing to study existentialism and nihilism and the results of secularism from a purely arm's length philosophy department, but when you take the plunge into the mind, heart, shoes, and soiled clothes of the man in the cellar, this mouse, as he calls himself, you begin to glimpse why Dostoyevsky is now recognized to have been a genius. He saw where we were headed and tried to warn us.

[Kathi Sharp]

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