When the protagonist Ivan Ilyich Pralinsky drinks a little bit too much with his colleagues one day, he expresses his desire for a philosophy founded upon the value of kindness and charity to those who are worse off than oneself.
After he leaves, Ivan encounters a wedding celebration, which turns to be that of one of his underlings at work, and his new philosophy is put to the test when he gatecrashes the festivities.
Also translated as A Nasty Story, An Unpleasant Predicament is a satiri.
Read Books Another man's wife and a husband under the bed, paperback/fyodor dostoevsky
