The Dream of a Ridiculous ManI am a ridiculous man. They call me mad now. That would be a promotion in rank A delusional man whose strange dream changes his life; a self justifying husband who causes his wifes suicide; a witness to a young girls ruin; a writer who stretches out on a gravestone and listens to the gossip of the dead the narrators of these four confessional tales show how little we understand ourselves.