The double ; and, The gambler /
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881.
The double ; and, The gambler / Double Fyodor Dostoevsky ; translated from the Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky ; with an introduction by Richard Pevear. - xxix, 336 p. ; 22 cm. - Everyman's library ; 295 .
Includes bibliographical references (p. xix-xx).
The Double -- The Gambler.
"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, a compulsion that Dostoevsky -- who once gambled away his young wife's wedding ring -- knew intimately from his own experience. 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."--Publisher's website. Presents two stories, one in which Goliadkin, a minor official, becomes aware of a strange doppelganger who replaces him with his friends and associates, and another, depicting Alexei Ivanovich's obsession with gambling and troubles with women.
9781857152951(hbk.) 9781400044702
2005040065
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881 --Translations into English.
Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
Gambling--Fiction.
Short stories, Russian--19th century.
891.733 DOS / 023276
The double ; and, The gambler / Double Fyodor Dostoevsky ; translated from the Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky ; with an introduction by Richard Pevear. - xxix, 336 p. ; 22 cm. - Everyman's library ; 295 .
Includes bibliographical references (p. xix-xx).
The Double -- The Gambler.
"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, a compulsion that Dostoevsky -- who once gambled away his young wife's wedding ring -- knew intimately from his own experience. 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."--Publisher's website. Presents two stories, one in which Goliadkin, a minor official, becomes aware of a strange doppelganger who replaces him with his friends and associates, and another, depicting Alexei Ivanovich's obsession with gambling and troubles with women.
9781857152951(hbk.) 9781400044702
2005040065
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881 --Translations into English.
Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
Gambling--Fiction.
Short stories, Russian--19th century.
891.733 DOS / 023276