Abstract

The present work aims to explore the demonic and ghost dimension within Ivan Turgenev’s tale “The Dream.” The primary goal is to understand how Trugenev connects the world of the living with that of the ghosts through “dreams” and the appearance of ghosts that create, thus, the sensation of strangeness and confusion in readers, as well as the constraints derived from fatum, all of which can be conceived as literary techniques for discourse processing from which certain interpretations are drawn out. We will pay special attention to the protagonist’s dreams, his encounters with the “ghost,” and the “demonic possession” that his mother experiences, who is the victim of an alleged generational curse that weighs upon the family and is deeply rooted in a hidden and incongruous murder.