The Gambler

The narrator is a little man but he is being torn apart by the great passions: Love… Something had seemed to strike my brain when she told me to go and play roulette. Strangely enough, that something had also seemed to make me hesitate, and to set me analysing my feelings with regard to her. In fact,......more

‘At that point I ought to have gone away, but a strange sensation rose up in me, a sort of defiance of fate, a desire to challenge it…’ Whenever I hear the advice “write what you know,” this is one of the first books to come to mind. Dostoevsky has an incredible ability to capture the feeling of guil......more