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Ronald Meyer’s Translation of “Dream of a Ridiculous Man” Published in the New Penguin Archive Series
April 13, 2025

In celebration of its 90th anniversary, Penguin Classics has reissued 90 volumes in its new series, The Penguin Archive. Ronald Meyer‘s translation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s “The Dream of a Ridiculous Man” is among those selected for the Archive. The volume also includes the stories “The Meek One,” “Bobok,” and “A Christmas Party and a Wedding”) all of which were first published by Penguin Classics in 2010 in the collection, The Gambler and Other Stories.

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