OpenTube

The Dream That Saved a Man From Death - Dostoevsky

Eternalised

120,872 views

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man is a short story published in 1877 by Fyodor Dostoevsky. It is practically a complete encyclopedia of Dostoevsky’s most important themes.

Most of Dostoevsky’s major characters always have “something ridiculous” about them, but they are simultaneously highly self-conscious and capable of deep insight into themselves and the world.

The story opens with the narrator contemplating the ridiculousness of his own life, and his recent realisation that there is nothing of any value in the world, everything to him appears as indifferent. Dostoevsky's The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, explores the dangers of nihilism and rational egoism, as well as the importance of suffering.

📨 Free newsletter: https://eternalisedofficial.com/subsc...
⭐ Support this channel: Patreon: eternalised
📺 YouTube Member Perks: @eternalised
☕ Donate a Coffee: https://ko-fi.com/eternalised
📘 PayPal https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/etern...
🛒 Official Merch: https://eternalised.creator-spring.com
📚 My Personal Library: https://eternalisedofficial.com/library

━━━━━━━━━━━━━

📘 The Book

▶ The Dream of a Ridiculous Man and Other Stories: A Gentle Creature, White Nights.
https://amzn.to/2R6sHzE

📚 Recommended Reading (High Quality and Best Translations)

▶ Notes from Underground (1864)
https://amzn.to/2DBRXas
▶ Crime and Punishment (1866)
https://amzn.to/3h2BIks
▶ The Idiot (1869)
https://amzn.to/3bxKFRK
▶ Demons (1872)
https://amzn.to/2FexadH
▶ The Brothers Karamazov (1880)
https://amzn.to/324Kiem

🎧 Prefer Audiobooks? Get a 30-day Audible Plus FREE trial:
▶ https://amzn.to/332zPzN

━━━━━━━━━━━━━

📺 Odysee ➔ https://odysee.com/@eternalised
📺 Rumble ➔ https://rumble.com/c/Eternalised
🐦 Twitter ➔ Twitter: eternalised1
📷 Instagram ➔ Instagram: eternalised_official
📘 Facebook ➔ Facebook: eternalised
🎧 Podcast ➔ https://anchor.fm/eternalised

━━━━━━━━━━━━━

📝 Sources

The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky. Translated, with an introduction by David Magarshack.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dre...
Aleksandr Petrov - The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1992) Dream of a Ridiculous Man (ENGLISH SUBTITLES)
Jeremy Irons - The Dream (1989) Jeremy Irons - The Dream (1989)

━━━━━━━━━━━━━

🎶 Music used

1. Blue Feather - Kevin MacLeod
2. Wounded - Kevin MacLeod
3. Earnest - Kevin MacLeod

Subscribe to Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
kmmusic

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...

━━━━━━━━━━━━━

As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases at no additional cost to you.

Thanks for watching, I appreciate it!

#dostoevsky

20 Comments

@Eternalised Creator 5 years ago (edited) Pinned

"The main thing is to love your neighbour as yourself, that is the main thing, and that is everything, for nothing else matters."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky :_eternalDostoevsky:

Become a Patron (exclusive content): https://www.patreon.com/eternalised
YouTube Member (exclusive content): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqos1tl0RntucGGtPXNxkkA/join
Official Merch: https://eternalised.creator-spring.com
Donate a Coffee: https://ko-fi.com/eternalised

@dissipatedtaint 5 years ago

To me, what makes Dostoevsky so uniquely brilliant and beautiful, is how it's so clear that the mock execution he was forced to endure had such a profound and incomparable impact on his psyche - and in turn, on his writing - for the rest of his life.

He writes in a way that makes the reader fully believe that Dostoevsky MUST HAVE experienced the things he describes FIRST HAND - which, in the case of this dream, he very likely did.

As indescribably terrifying and psychologically crippling as it must have been, I think we are all quite fortunate that Dostoevsky experienced, survived, and eventually rediscovered a sense of normality following what must have been a torturous life event.

@ericmarley7060 5 years ago (edited)

"Nihilism? Cringe." - Fyodor Dostoevsky

@StutteringSageBobBarker 5 years ago

"He is alone in his knowledge of the Truth, therefore he is alone and he is ridiculed."

@markrago7217 4 years ago

Dostoevsky changed my life, his psychological, philosophical, masterpiece novels have been a major inspiration for me to stay sober. Crime and Punishment is the greatest novel I've ever read. I've also read The Idiot, and Notes from Underground. I just started reading Demons, and I have The Brothers Karamazov waiting on deck.

@adenorbe 4 years ago

Nice video but you missed the part in the end where he admits that concealing the fact that he corrupted them all was a mistake. I think that makes it clear that Dostoevsky isn't advocating for a utopia, since utopianists wouldn't admit that man is capable of evil. The way I understood it, the message is that man is capable of good as well as evil, and that potential for goodness despite evil is what gave the ridiculous man a sense of purpose.

@tifatifa4115 5 years ago (edited)

Its great u care about literature and philosophy in the miserable era of tiktok

@kevinrombouts3027 5 years ago

Excellent food for thought. To live for a dream even if it may never be realized.

@thenowchurch6419 5 years ago

Dostoyevsky will always be read, discussed and admired.
He made his mark alright, that Christ loving, existentialist drunkard.

@rishavraj3766 5 years ago

The more I learned, the more conscious did I become of the fact that I was ridiculous.

@andrewwebster5913 5 years ago

I love these videos! I enjoy the exploration of dark themes. To quote Carl Jung: “No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”

@astriddiazbriceno2459 5 years ago

My gosh. Are you aware of how well done your videos are? The phrases chosen, the images placed in the right moment to illustrate what is being said, the thread throughout all the video. Wow, it really impressed me. It feels like an onerous narration of events, I can understand what I'm reading, but even though if I couldn't, the images and words would give to my mind a kind of non-spoken knowledge; a well-transmitted idea.

Thanks for doing this

@PhilosophyToons 5 years ago

I like the connection made between suffering and love

@raskolnikovman936 5 years ago

Amazing short story, it's only around 20 pages but one of my all time favourites!

@fireknight4772 2 years ago (edited)

When Job lost all he had, his friends pondered the possible wrongs that may have caused it. His wife told him to "curse his God, and die." Job, at his lowest point in life, replied, " You speak as a foolish women." Praise God and His Universe...

@PaulSyp 2 years ago

Dostoevsky has this amazing ability to be both incredibly dark and hopeful at the same time. I love it. Its a reminder that your outlook could be positive, even when going through difficult times. Dostoevsky experienced a very traumatic life that made him into the wonderful person he was. Trauma can very much be a crucible for ones personal development if one approaches the situation appropriately. Trauma does not need to break you (forever), you can get through this! Much love to everyone reading this.

@christopherprim1973 5 years ago

'A ridiculous man' condemns a whole man. Thus, you can dismiss his dream.
It's too fantastic. How long ago was this written? A century or two?
God bless Russian novelists. I'm all for antidotes to nihilism.

@dineshjagai 2 years ago

This story and notes from the underground are my fav Dostoyevsky short stories. I think they both portray the damaging effects on the psyche that a post enlightenment world has grappled with.