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Sometimes transliterated Dostoevsky, was a Russian novelist, journalist, and short-story writer whose psychological penetration into the human soul had a profound influence on the 20th century novel. Dostoevsky was the second son of a former army doctor. He was educated at home and at a private school. Shortly after the death of his mother in 1837 he was sent to St. Petersburg, where he entered the Army Engineering College. Dostoevsky's father died in 1839, most likely of apoplexy, but it was rumored that he was murdered by his own serfs. Dostoevsky graduated as a military engineer, but resigned in 1844 to devote himself to writing. His first novel, Poor Folk appeared in 1846. That year he joined a group of utopian socialists. He was arrested in 1849 and sentenced to death, commuted to imprisonment in Siberia. Dostoevsky spent four years in hard labor and four years as a soldier in Semipalatinsk, a city in what it is today Kazakhstan. Dostoevsky returned to St. Petersburg in 1854 as a writer with a religious mission and published three works that derive in different ways from his Siberia experiences: The House of the Dead , (1860) a fictional account of prison life, The Insulted and Injured, which reflects the author's refutation of naive Utopianism in the face of evil, and Winter Notes on Summer Impressions, his account of a trip to Western Europe. In 1857 Dostoevsky married Maria Isaev, a 29-year old widow. He resigned from the army two years later. Between the years 1861 and 1863 he served as editor of the monthly periodical Time, which was later suppressed because of an article on the Polish uprising. In 1864-65 his wife and brother died and he was burdened with debts. His situation was made even worse by his gambling addiction. From the turmoil of the 1860s emerged Notes from the Underground, a psychological study of an outsider, which marked a major advancement in Dostoevsky's artistic development. In 1867 Dostoevsky married Anna Snitkin, his 22-year old stenographer. They traveled abroad and returned in 1871. By the time of The Brothers Karamazov (1879-80), Dostoevsky was recognized in his own country as one of its great writers.
The Gambler, by Fiodor Dostoyesvsky- Published on: 2015-11-02
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .51" w x 6.00" l, .67 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 224 pages
About the Author Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (11 November 1821 – 9 February 1881) was a Russian novelist. Charles James Hogarth (1869–1942), Translator of Russian, French and Spanish authors.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Suspending the Moment By Phyllis Antebi Ph.D 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 perpetrated on one's psyche by being obsessed and overrun by a constant feeling of urgency. Thrill seeking and risk taking go hand in hand creating this drama of a group of idle people addicted to pleasure. Pretentious adults living for and in the moment is the backdrop for what Dostoevsky calls, an example of the Westernization of Russian culture. Hard work and persistent effort are to be superseded by idle days and sleepless nights. The fixated and fixating atmosphere is somewhat familiar to any of us who have been to a Casino. The intensity of the atmosphere is based on the suspension of the moment but the relationships are anything but cordial, genuine, or satisfying. Throughout is portrayed the compulsive inability to postpone gratification. 'As if' people playing as if life were merely a game of chance is not a novel theme. Dostoevsky tells us, "One month of such a life is worth your whole existence", an appeal to the sheer intensity of the experience. "What they crave is pure risk"..., pure chance". We desire "not freedom but the thrill itself". This is the story of the pathology of extremism, a quest for infinite time, the suspension of thoughtful self-discipline, even, the suspension of conscience. The consciousness of self and the direct sensation of existence are antithetical. An abnormal intensity is hard to resist where one experiences neither their history, in the form of memories, nor their futures, in terms of long term planning. "Even people who do not pretend are turned into pretenders by others". Gambling takes Alexey out of any concern with morality and into the sphere of amorality, where good and evil do not exist. We see phrases like, "carelessly and contemptuously ...;... horribly abusive; I must have money!; I set no value on my life at all now; she did not regard him as a human being; that some radical and fundamental change would take place in my destiny; it all struck me as so dirty, somehow, morally horrid and dirty". It has become, Alexey asserts, "Horribly repugnant to me to test my thoughts and actions by any moral standard whatever. I was guided by something different". Narcissism abounds as relationships lose any human significance and become simply vehicles for making a bundle or should I say, losing one. "A refinement in her contempt, ... she had to make use of me in some way, as a slave or an errand boy, ... I was her slave and utterly insignificant". If you enjoy the existential qualities of great fiction; if you like the intellectual challenges of penetrating psychological studies; and you have some familiarity with Dostoevsky, the darkness of his characters, their petty concerns, and pathological indignities, this book is a worthwhile read. In conclusion, its true what the existentialists say, we really do know reality by how it feels, especially, morally relevant dimensions of reality. It's also true that the range and depth of one's personality has much to do with that person's capacity to love.
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