The Double and The Gambler (Vintage Classics)

The Double and The Gambler (Vintage Classics)

The award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have given us the definitive version of Fyodor Dostoevskyâ€™s strikingly original short novels, The Double and The Gambler.The Double is a surprisingly modern hallucinatory nightmareâ€“foreshadowing Kafka and Sartreâ€“in which a minor official named Goliadkin becomes aware of a mysterious doppelganger, a man who has his name and his face and who gradually and relentlessly begins to displace him with his friends and colleagues. The Gambler is a stunning psychological portrait of a young man's exhilarating and destructive addiction to gambling, a compulsion that Dostoevskyâ€“who once gambled away his young wife's wedding ringâ€“knew intimately from his own experience. In chronicling the disastrous love affairs and gambling adventures of 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.
Country USA
Brand Vintage
Manufacturer Vintage
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780375719011
Color White
ReleaseDate 2007-01-16
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780375719011

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