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The Double and The Gambler

Introduction by Richard Pevear

By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Introduction by Richard Pevear
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Introduction by Richard Pevear
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

By Fyodor Dostoevsky

By Fyodor Dostoevsky

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    About The Double and The Gambler

    The award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have given us the definitive version of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s strikingly original short novels, The Double and The Gambler.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. In chronicling the disastrous love affairs and gambling adventures of Alexei Ivanovich, Dostoevsky explores the irresistible temptation to look into the abyss of ultimate risk that he believed was an essential part of the Russian national character.

    About The Double and The Gambler

    The first real expression of Dostoevsky’s genius, The Double is a surprisingly modern hallucinatory nightmare in which a minor official named Goliadkin becomes aware of a mysterious doppelgänger–a man who has his name and his face and who gradually and relentlessly begins to displace him with his friends and colleagues. In the dilemma of this increasingly paranoid hero, Dostoevsky makes vividly concrete the inner disintegration of consciousness that would become a major theme of his work.

    The Gambler     was written twenty years later, under the pressure of crushing debt. It is a stunning psychological portrait of a young man’s exhilarating and destructive addiction, a compulsion that Dostoevsky–who once gambled away his young wife’s wedding ring–knew intimately from his own experience. In the disastrous love affairs and gambling adventures of his character, Alexei Ivanovich, Dostoevsky explores the irresistible temptation to look into the abyss of ultimate risk that he believed was an essential part of the Russian national character.

    The two strikingly original short novels brought together here–in new translations by award-winning translators–were both literary gambles of a sort for Dostoevsky.

    About The Double and The Gambler

    The award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have given us the definitive version of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s strikingly original short novels, The Double and The Gambler.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. In chronicling the disastrous love affairs and gambling adventures of Alexei Ivanovich, Dostoevsky explores the irresistible temptation to look into the abyss of ultimate risk that he believed was an essential part of the Russian national character.

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    About Fyodor Dostoevsky

    Fyodor Mikailovich Dostoevsky’s life was as dark and dramatic as the great novels he wrote. He was born in Moscow in 1821. A short first novel, Poor Folk (1846), brought him instant success, but his writing career was cut short by his… More about Fyodor Dostoevsky

    About Fyodor Dostoevsky

    Fyodor Mikailovich Dostoevsky’s life was as dark and dramatic as the great novels he wrote. He was born in Moscow in 1821. A short first novel, Poor Folk (1846), brought him instant success, but his writing career was cut short by his… More about Fyodor Dostoevsky

    About Fyodor Dostoevsky

    Fyodor Mikailovich Dostoevsky’s life was as dark and dramatic as the great novels he wrote. He was born in Moscow in 1821. A short first novel, Poor Folk (1846), brought him instant success, but his writing career was cut short by his… More about Fyodor Dostoevsky

    Product Details

    Category: Fiction Classics | Suspense & Thriller

    Paperback | $16.95
    Published by Vintage
    Jan 16, 2007 | 368 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375719011

    Category: Fiction Classics | Suspense & Thriller

    Hardcover | $28.00
    Published by Everyman’s Library
    Oct 04, 2005 | 368 Pages | 5 x 8 | ISBN 9781400044702

    Category: Fiction Classics | Suspense & Thriller

    Ebook | $6.99
    Published by Vintage
    Jan 16, 2007 | 376 Pages | ISBN 9780307279712
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    "Pevear and Volokhonsky may be the premier Russian-to-English translators of the era." –The New Yorker

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