![]() ![]() ![]() He only learns the details of the General's and Polina's financial state later in the story through his long-time acquaintance, Mr. She only laughs in his face (as she does when he professes his love) and treats him with cold indifference, if not downright malice. He returns to her the winnings but she will not tell him the reason she needs money. After hesitations, he succumbs and ends up winning at the roulette table. She asks him to go to the town's casino and place a bet for her. ![]() His expected inheritance will pay his debts and gain Mademoiselle Blanche de Cominges's hand in marriage.Īlexei is hopelessly in love with Polina, the General's stepdaughter. Upon learning of the illness of his wealthy aunt, "Grandmother", he sends streams of telegrams to Moscow and awaits the news of her demise. ![]() The patriarch of the family, The General, is indebted to the Frenchman de Criet and has mortgaged his property in Russia to pay only a small amount of his debt. The first-person narrative is told from the point of view of Alexei Ivanovich, a tutor working for a Russian family living in a suite at a German hotel. The novella reflects Dostoyevsky's own addiction to roulette, which was in more ways than one the inspiration for the book: Dostoyevsky completed the novella under a strict deadline to pay off gambling debts. The Gambler is a short novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky about a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian general. Igrok (Игрок) = The Gambler = Le Joueur, Fyodor Dostoyevsky ![]()
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