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Publisher: Vintage
Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
ISBN: 9780375719011
Fiction, Classics
The Double and The Gambler
by
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Double and The Gambler by
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Reviews
"Pevear and Volokhonsky may be the premier Russian-to-English translators of the era."
The New Yorker
Summary
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. 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.