"Il giocatore" è la drammatica rappresentazione della passione per il gioco come una delle possibili dimensioni infernali in cui si configura l'esistenza umana. Sperando nella vincita in grado di riportarlo nel novero degli esseri umani, il giocatore non mira tanto al denaro, quanto alla possibilità di soggiogare, lui russo, l'intero Vecchio Continente, rappresentato dai 'tipi' del francese, dell'inglese e del tedesco.
Works, such as the novels Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), of Russian writer Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky or Dostoevski combine religious mysticism with profound psychological insight.
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky composed short stories, essays, and journals. His literature explores humans in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century and engages with a variety of philosophies and themes. People most acclaimed his Demons(1872) .
Many literary critics rate him among the greatest authors of world literature and consider multiple books written by him to be highly influential masterpieces. They consider his Notes from Underground of the first existentialist literature. He is also well regarded as a philosopher and theologian.