In its aim, it reminds me "What life means to me" Jack London, the latter being nevertheless more political, more centered on his time during which the class struggle reached its climax, so more social, but as the new Dostoevsky, she approach the man as a whole.
"The Dream of a Ridiculous Man" tells the whole, mankind in the Universe, Love and corruption, Here on earth and the hereafter. There is of course a philosophical dimension but also a metaphysical dimension, another fantastic and dreamlike, four dimensions transcending space and time for a trip to the other side ...
Written at the end of his life, the news is a great introduction to the world of Dostoyevsky, it foreshadows the last work performed by the writer, probably the most important, "The Brothers Karamazov".
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