Spilleren

by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ole Husted Jensen (Translation)

Scenen er et kursted ved Rhinen ved navn Roulettenburg, og som navnet antyder, er det ikke blot varme bade, gæsterne fornøjer sig med.

Blandt aktørerne finder vi en falleret russisk general, en vis mademoiselle Blanche, som generalen har tabt sit hjerte til, og ikke mindst hans aldrende og meget velhavende tante kaldet babusjka som alle håber snart vil dø.

Hovedpersonen er den unge huslærer Aleksej Ivanovitj. Han er forelsket I generalens steddatter Polina, og for at redde hende ud af en økonomisk knibe giver han sig til at spille roulette. Han gribes imidlertid af spillelidenskab, og snart har han glemt alt omkring sig, inklusive Polina.

188 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 1866

About the author

Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский (Russian)

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.

Very influential writings of Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin included Problems of Dostoyevsky's Works (1929),

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.

(Russian: Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский) (see also Fiodor Dostoïevski)

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