The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (Unabridged)
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4.1 • 12 Ratings
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- $1.99
Publisher Description
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. No less a writer than Virginia Woolf says of Dostoevsky, "Out of Shakespeare there is no more exciting reading."
Customer Reviews
Dostoyevsky = Great / Quality = Blah
Zimmerman is as always a serviceable narrator, Dostoyevsky is the most Dostoyevskian of them all, but the quality is lackluster at best, sounding as though this audiobook were transferred directly from a cassette left sitting out in the back of a hot car. The narrator's voice shifts and phases, creating the acoustic illusion that he's a thimble-sized gnome, reading from inside a sea shell.