by Fëdor Dostoevskij · Rizzoli · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788817018678
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«Il giocatore» is the short novel by Fëdor Dostoevskij, published by Rizzoli in paperback (220 pages, in Italian).
The novel follows a young tutor with an obsessive inclination for gambling, among German barons, Italian counts and English gentlemen gathered around the gaming table. The irruption of the general's grandmother, the «baboulinka», triggers a plot where addiction to chance mixes with moral degradation and constant humor.
Fëdor Dostoevskij wrote the novel in twenty-eight days to fulfill a contract; the work was originally published in 1866. This edition includes an essay by Anna Grigor'evna Dostoevskaja.
For readers of nineteenth-century Russian literature and European classics interested in the psychology of obsession.
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was a Russian philosopher, novelist, short-story writer, essayist and journalist. He is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in both Russian and world literature, and many of his works are considered highly influential masterpieces. Dostoevsky's literary works explore the human condition in the troubled political, social and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes. His most acclaimed novels include Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), Demons (1872), The Adolescent (1875) and The Brothers Karamazov (1880). His Notes from Underground, a novella published in 1864, is considered one of the first works of existentialist literature.
