The Gambler
180 str.
3 godz. 0 min.
- Kategoria:
- klasyka
- Format:
- papier
- Tytuł oryginału:
- Игрок
- Data wydania:
- 1997-01-01
- Data 1. wydania:
- 1997-01-01
- Liczba stron:
- 180
- Czas czytania
- 3 godz. 0 min.
- Język:
- angielski
- ISBN:
- 0393316491
Dostoevsky wrote The Gambler even as he was in the midst of his own addiction to the roulette wheel. In financial straits, Dostoevsky had left Russia to avoid his creditors and came to try his hand at gambling. It would be a passion with him for eight years. While not modeled on him, Alexei, the narrator and main character of The Gambler, shares this obsession and addiction for gambling - one that is also a testing of the established order and the human condition itself. Centered on three characters all desperately and unrequitedly in love, The Gambler delves into the meaning of passion, idealism, and thwarted desire
Dodaj do biblioteczki