The Eternal Husband, and Other Stories [Transl. Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky]

The volume's centerpiece is Dostoevsky's most classically perfect work, The Eternal Husband, which describes the almost surreal meeting of a cuckolded widower and his dead wife's lover. Along with this complete and unabridged short novel, Dostoevsky displays his dark brilliance and satiric vision in four tales that vividly portray his all-too-human subjects. From a government official who shows up uninvited at an underling's wedding to prove his humanity, to a self-deceiving narrator who struggles futilely to understand his wife's suicide; from a hack writer who attends a funeral and ends up talking with the dead, to the protagonist of "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man," the very last story Dostoevsky wrote, an ecstatic and deeply ironic vision of a society based on love, The Eternal Husband and Other Stories is sterling Dostoevsky. Five Classic Stories In A New Translation. The Title Story Is On A Relationship Between A Husband And His Wife's Lover, While A Nasty Anecdote Is A Satire On A Tsarist Official Who Considers Himself Humane. A Nasty Anecdote -- The Eternal Husband -- Bobok -- The Meek One -- The Dream Of A Ridiculous Man. By Fyodor Dostoevsky ; Translated And Annotated By Richard Pevear And Larissa Volokhonsky. Includes Bibliographical References.