5/10/2023 0 Comments The double dostoevsky novel![]() ![]() That's all there is to it - you just can't lose that way and are sure to win. ![]() I really do know the secret - it is terribly silly and simple, merely a matter of keeping oneself under constant control and never getting excited, no matter how the game shifts. Please do not think that, in my joy over not having lost, I am showing off by saying that I possess the secret of how to win instead of losing. He first mentions his interest in gambling in a letter he sent to his first wife's sister on 1 September 1863 describing his initial success: From that time till 1871, when his passion for gambling subsided, he played at Baden-Baden, Bad Homburg, and Saxon-les-Bains frequently, often beginning by winning a small amount of money and losing far more in the end. Fyodor Dostoevsky gambled for the first time at the tables at Wiesbaden in 1863. ![]() The Gambler treated a subject Fyodor Dostoevsky himself was familiar with: gambling. The novel reflects Dostoevsky's own addiction to roulette, which was in more ways than one the inspiration for the book: Dostoevsky completed the novel in 1866 under a strict deadline to pay off gambling debts. The Gambler ( Russian: Игрокъ, romanized: Igrok modern spelling: Игрок) is a short novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky about a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian general. ![]()
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