Publisher's Synopsis
"Player". The work is hard to cruelty, nervous to irregularities and sincere - even before the spiritual nakedness. This is - a kind of "Tales of Ordinary Madness" in Dostoevsky. The history of gambling, which has become for man is not the meaning of the game and even the meaning of life, but - the only existential essence of being. This - "The Gambler". And it is - perhaps the only "autobiographical" book Dostoevsky.