The Gambler

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Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky ISBN: 9788826492841
Publisher: Dostoyevsky Press Publication: March 2, 2018
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
ISBN: 9788826492841
Publisher: Dostoyevsky Press
Publication: March 2, 2018
Imprint:
Language: English

The Gambler is a short novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky about a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian general. The novella reflects Dostoyevsky's own addiction to roulette, which was in more ways than one the inspiration for the book: Dostoyevsky completed the novella under a strict deadline to pay off gambling debts.

The Gambler treated a subject Fyodor Dostoyevsky himself was familiar with—gambling. The first-person narrative is told from the point of view of Alexei Ivanovich, a tutor working for a Russian family living in a suite at a German hotel. The patriarch of the family, The General, is indebted to the Frenchman De Grieux and has mortgaged his property in Russia to pay only a small amount of his debt. Upon learning of the illness of his wealthy aunt, "Grandmother", he sends streams of telegrams to Moscow and awaits the news of her demise. His expected inheritance will pay his debts and gain Madamoiselle De Cominges's hand in marriage.

Three films have been based on the book. The Great Sinner, in 1949. The Gambler, released in 1974, The Gamblers, a German film released in 2007.

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The Gambler is a short novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky about a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian general. The novella reflects Dostoyevsky's own addiction to roulette, which was in more ways than one the inspiration for the book: Dostoyevsky completed the novella under a strict deadline to pay off gambling debts.

The Gambler treated a subject Fyodor Dostoyevsky himself was familiar with—gambling. The first-person narrative is told from the point of view of Alexei Ivanovich, a tutor working for a Russian family living in a suite at a German hotel. The patriarch of the family, The General, is indebted to the Frenchman De Grieux and has mortgaged his property in Russia to pay only a small amount of his debt. Upon learning of the illness of his wealthy aunt, "Grandmother", he sends streams of telegrams to Moscow and awaits the news of her demise. His expected inheritance will pay his debts and gain Madamoiselle De Cominges's hand in marriage.

Three films have been based on the book. The Great Sinner, in 1949. The Gambler, released in 1974, The Gamblers, a German film released in 2007.

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