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The Double and the Gambler

The Double and the Gambler

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
Pevear, Richard
Volokhonsky, Larissa

Paperback

Series: Vintage Classics

Mystery & ThrillerClassic FictionGeneral Fiction

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 0375719016
ISBN13: 9780375719011
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Jan 16 2007
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.80
Language: English
The award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have given us the definitive version of Fyodor Dostoevsky's strikingly original short novels, The Double and The Gambler.The Double is a surprisingly modern hallucinatory nightmare-foreshadowing Kafka and Sartre-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 Dostoevsky-who once gambled away his young wife's wedding ring-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.

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