Fyodor Dostoevsky - Russian writer - Russian Personalities.

The Gambler paints a stark picture of the attractions—and addictions—of gambling. Using skillful characterization, Dostoevsky faithfully depicts life among the gambling set in old Germany. This probing psychological novel explores the tangled love affairs and complicated lives of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young gambler, and Polina Alexandrovna, the woman he loves.

It reminds me of Fyodor Karamazov in a way but to the opposite effect, a matter of who is being preached to. One great talent of Dostoevsky was the impassioned harangue. Notes is left being more of the prostitute Liza and the two plus two talk. As is always the case, Russian literature is all about appearances. I did think while reading of what Dostoevsky would be like if on choice occasions.

Fyodor Mikailovich Dostoevsky’s life was as dark and dramatic as the great novels he wrote.He was born in Moscow in 1821. A short first novel, Poor Folk (1846), brought him instant success, but his writing career was cut short by his arrest for alleged subversion against Tsar Nicholas I in 1849.His prison experiences coupled with his conversion to a profoundly religious philosophy formed the.

Personal Background. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was born in 1821, the second of seven children, and lived until 1881. His father, an army doctor attached to the staff of a public hospital, was a stern and self-righteous man while his mother was the opposite — passive, kind, and generous — and perhaps this fact accounts for Dostoevsky's filling his novels with characters who seem to.

In this dark and compelling short novel, Fyodor Dostoevsky tells the story of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young tutor working in the household of an imperious Russian general. Alexey tries to break through the wall of the established order in Russia, but instead becomes mired in the endless downward spiral of betting and loss. His intense and inescapable addiction is accentuated by his affair with.

The notion that Dostoevsky had a mania for gambling is also rejected: his compulsion was severe, for a period, but he conquered it. The notion that Dostoevsky rushed through his novels, careless of style or structure, is also corrected, even if he did complain that he had not been born into the luxury of Tolstoy or Turgenev, and so had to write to deadlines (which he often missed).

Born on 30 October, 1821, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky spent his life struggling with poverty and epilepsy. He also became an orphan at the age of 16, faced a death sentence, spent time in a Siberian penal colony, served in the Russian army, struggled against a gambling addiction, and lived through the deaths of his brother, first wife and, later, his three-year-old son. Despite, or perhaps.

Fyodor Dostoevsky was the second of seven children born to Mikhail Dostoyevsky and Maria Nechayeva. The family lived in a home on the grounds of the Mariinsky Hospital in Moscow, where the father was a staff doctor. Dostoevsky’s mother died of tuberculosis in 1937 and his father passed away two years later, most likely from an apoplectic stroke, although the family’s serfs were accused of.

Imagine living in an adult world with the emotional patience of a child. Dostoevsky has provided his readers with a first person account of this form of existential existence, with its highs and its lows and its lack of predictability. In particular, this is a story about addiction, a gambling addiction. It's also about the mind numbing effects.

When writing his novella The Gambler in 1866, Fyodor Dostoevsky remained true to the old adage write what you know. Critically acclaimed for its insight into the mind of a gambling addict, the book offers a fascinating glimpse into Dostoevsky's personal struggle with gambling.

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