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Ridiculous Man

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« Reply #15 on: June 21, 2006, 07:11:56 AM »
How about The Gambler as a short novel and Dream Of A Ridiculous Man.
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« Reply #16 on: June 22, 2006, 08:21:19 AM »
The Dream of a Rediculous Man,  followed by a Gentle Creature.
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« Reply #17 on: June 22, 2006, 09:01:19 AM »
That's the exact order for me too.  Those are two of my favorite short stories by any writer.  That's pretty amazing of Dostoevsky, I think, who was known for his long novels, but produced some of the best short stories of all time.
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« Reply #18 on: June 28, 2006, 09:00:24 PM »
Quote from: MikeK on June 22, 2006, 09:01:19 AM
That's the exact order for me too.  Those are two of my favorite short stories by any writer.  That's pretty amazing of Dostoevsky, I think, who was known for his long novels, but produced some of the best short stories of all time.

Yes. I love Chekhov, though, too.
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« Reply #19 on: June 28, 2006, 09:27:42 PM »
Mine are The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and also White Nights for some reason. I do not normally like purely love stories, but Dostoevsky somehow got to me.

(Assuming that we are not counting Notes from Underground, which is one of my favourites of all time.)
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« Reply #20 on: July 06, 2006, 01:56:55 PM »
Quote from: An Idiot on June 28, 2006, 09:00:24 PM
Quote from: MikeK on June 22, 2006, 09:01:19 AM
That's the exact order for me too.  Those are two of my favorite short stories by any writer.  That's pretty amazing of Dostoevsky, I think, who was known for his long novels, but produced some of the best short stories of all time.

Yes. I love Chekhov, though, too.


Chekhov's also my favorite short story writer.  My favorite story of his is "In the Ravine".  
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« Reply #21 on: July 07, 2006, 01:49:20 PM »
A Gentle Creature because it's a character sketch of an alternative Nastasha Fillipovna in the Idiot; and I just read Netochka Nezvanova. It was heartbreaking and to me sets up every young character FD writes about in his later works.
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« Reply #22 on: August 19, 2006, 12:32:56 PM »
Poor Folk might be my favorite overall, I also love White Nights and Notes from Underground
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« Reply #23 on: October 25, 2006, 10:48:30 AM »
I can't understand why no one has mentioned - "The Honest Thief". It sticks in my mind even after many years...I suppose I measure these things in terms of emotions evoked...which can be a function of so many things...such as frame of mind at the time of reading...then again the theme in the book resonates...even now...and I see it in other works too...I am reminded of....Midnight Cowboy...or Steinbeck's - "Of Mice and Men"...I'm sure there are others...this tragic friendship between men...
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« Reply #24 on: October 25, 2006, 05:43:12 PM »
     My favorite short was The Crocodile mainly because of Dostoevsky's response to the overwhelming radicalism that inundated the young people of Russia during this period in history.
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« Reply #25 on: December 05, 2006, 11:36:26 PM »
White Nights wins it for me... I'd been reading alot of Somerset Maugham and some Voltaire when someone recommended Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground - it was a small collection of White Nights, Notes from Underground, selections from House of the Dead and Dreams of a Ridiculous Man - I fell in love with it in the first sentence.  
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« Reply #26 on: January 01, 2007, 10:04:09 AM »
Quote from: An Idiot on June 22, 2006, 08:21:19 AM
The Dream of a Rediculous Man,  followed by a Gentle Creature.


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« Reply #27 on: February 06, 2009, 12:55:40 PM »
Notes from the Underground is for me the best Dostoievski book.

But the most humorous is the Crocodile, the only not finished Dostoievski work...
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« Reply #28 on: August 19, 2009, 02:50:27 PM »
My favorite is definitely The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, followed by Bobok and The Child at Christ's Christmas Party.
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