Crocodile and Other Stories (riverrun Editions)

''I have always been ridiculous, and I have known it, perhaps from the hour I was born''


A man goes mad because he is happy.

A civil servant behaves like a monster at a wedding-party.

A man is swallowed by a crocodile, but not eaten nor seriously damaged.

Dostoevsky''s stories inhabit similarly volcanic atmospheres as his novels, places of curiosity and exception. They resemble jokes and anecdotes, to...