Player. Dostoevsky F.M.

The player occupies an important place among the novels by F. M. Dostoevsky, who conceived him as a “visual and detailed image of a rolling game”. After all, the writer himself is very familiar with the theory and with the practice of the game. So, being in Visbaden in 1863, Fyodor Dostoevsky lost all his money and money of his companion in a few days.

The main character of the work - Alexei Ivanovich, a home teacher, in love with the stepdaughter of the head of the family, Pauline. In order to help her, he begins to play roulette. The excitement, the all -consuming passion for the game, the vicissitudes of fate and love conflicts involve the heroes of the novel in the crazy and endless whirlpool of events taking place at the fashion resort in Germany.