Double and the Gambler (Dostoevsky - paperback)

Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky

ISBN: 9780375719011

Binding: paperback

Section: Fiction

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.