🌙🪓 The Dream of a Ridiculous Man - can compassion survive the world?
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Russian short story discussion - read beforehand.
What this is Dostoevsky does not exactly sneak up on you. The Dream of a Ridiculous Man starts in despair and ends somewhere stranger: a vision of innocence, corruption, compassion, and whether a person can come back from total indifference to the world. It is short, strange, and very Russian in the sense that one man has a spiritual crisis large enough to inconvenience the entire universe. We are reading only this story, not the whole collection.
A few questions for the room
• “What does indifference do to a person?” • “Is the dream a vision of truth, madness, guilt, or grace?” • “Why does compassion sometimes arrive only after despair?”
Reading Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Dream of a Ridiculous Man Read only this story: [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40745](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40745)
Content note: the story includes suicidal thoughts.
When and where 🗓️ Date: Sunday, October 25th, 2026 🕒 Time: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM PDT 📍 Location: UBC Learning Exchange 612 Main St, Vancouver, BC V6A 2V3, Canada Meeting point: Main entrance at 612 Main Street. Please arrive 10 minutes before the event starts. Doors close 10 minutes after the start time. Cap: 12
