The Gambler - Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
- The
- Gambler
- was
- written
- under
- the
- pressure
- of
- crushing
- debt.
- It
- is
- a
- stunning
- psychological
- portrait
- of
- a
- young
- mans
- exhilarating
- and
- destructive
- addiction,
- a
- compulsion
- that
- Dostoevskywho
- once
- gambled
- away
- his
- young
- wifes
- wedding
- ringknew
- intimately
- from
- his
- own
- experience.
- In
- the
- disastrous
- love
- affairs
- and
- gambling
- adventures
- of
- his
- character,
- Alexei
- Ivanovich,
- Dostoevsky
- explores
- the
- irresistible
- temptation
- to
- look
- into
- the
- abyss
- of
- ultimate
- risk
- that
- he
- believed
- was
- an
- essential
- part
- of
- the
- Russian
- national character.
