Name: A Funny Man's Dream
Rating: 4.194444444444445 (36 reviews)
ISBN: 9780898751376

Fyodor Dostoevsky

A Funny Man's Dream

The Dream Of A Ridiculous Man

Cait🪼

"On our earth we can only love with suffering and through suffering. We cannot love otherwise, and we know of no other sort of love. I want suffering in order to love"

god, I love Dostoevsky

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Safiya 

One of the hardest things to do while reading Fedor is to review his works. And this short story leaves me speechless facing his grandeur, though short but deep : Where he preaches, as usual, humaneness and brotherhood. If I had to sum this up it'll be this extract of the last paragraph : " And yet it's so simple : in one day in one hour-it could all be set up at once ! The main thing is -love others as yourself, that's the main thing, and it's everthing, there's no need for anything else at all..."The consciousness of life is higher than life, the knowledge of the laws of happiness is higher than happiness" - that is what must be fought ! And I will..."
So if you have never read any of Dostoievsky's works, here's a short great story to begin with !

Ilse

“I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of people.” I absolutely loved this book! The writing was stunning and it was so unexpected how it progressed and ended, taking it into a completely different direction than I would’ve expected based on the description. Definitely a book I can recommend!

My fave quote: “But their knowledge was deeper and loftier than our science; for our science seeks to explain what life is, it aspires to comprehend it, in order to teach others to live; but they knew how to live even without science, and I understood that, but I could not understand their knowledge.”

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

I absolutely loved this book! The writing was stunning and it was so unexpected how it progressed and ended, taking it into a completely different direction than I would’ve expected based on the description. Definitely a book I can recommend!

A Funny Man's Dream

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