Description
Its story of passion and despair is based on Dostoevsky's own experience as a compulsive gambler--but Dostoevsky was able to break away, whereas Alexei vows to quit as soon as he breaks even--an event, it is clear, that will never happen.
Like so many other characters in Dostoeveky's novels, Alexei is trying to break through the wall of the established order and the human condition itself. But instead he is drawn into the roulette wheel's vortex.
Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 05/17/1997
Pages: 186
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.41lbs
Size: 8.34h x 5.52w x 0.51d
ISBN13: 9780393316490
ISBN10: 0393316491
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Literary Criticism | Russian & Former Soviet Union
Like so many other characters in Dostoeveky's novels, Alexei is trying to break through the wall of the established order and the human condition itself. But instead he is drawn into the roulette wheel's vortex.
Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 05/17/1997
Pages: 186
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.41lbs
Size: 8.34h x 5.52w x 0.51d
ISBN13: 9780393316490
ISBN10: 0393316491
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Literary Criticism | Russian & Former Soviet Union