The Gambler

The Gambler is one of the classics of world literature and one of the most famous works of the great novelist and philosopher Fyodor Dostoyevsky. This novel has spread and become famous and has been translated into all languages ​​of the world, spreading the ideas of its author in various literary and cultural circles.

This novel is one of Dostoyevsky’s most famous and well-known works, as it has achieved great popularity around the world. Despite the antiquity of this novel, which first appeared in the mid-nineteenth century, it has not lost its luster and fame to this day, but is in high demand by readers of the twenty-first century, achieving huge sales year after year at all book fairs; local, international and of course global.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky is distinguished by his unique philosophical style, as he uses this unique philosophical tendency and his masterful writing skills to navigate the secrets of the human soul; to know its details and motives; In order to reveal the unseen secrets and the imperceptible contradictions, he became famous for his humanistic approach to writing, which is what distinguished Dostoevsky and placed him at the top of the pyramid of world literature.

In this novel, Dostoevsky deals with the story of an educated Russian professor named “Alexei Ivanovich”, a poor teacher who falls in love with a girl from an aristocratic family who treats him in a marginalized manner and sometimes despises him, to depict this relationship between different social classes.

The novel also mainly deals with gambling and the lives of gamblers and analyzes the psychological and spiritual side of the gambler, as this is evident in the journey of the novel’s hero Alexei in gambling and his belief that he can win a lot of money if he gambles, so the writer takes us on this journey that ends with gambling addiction, which the writer of the novel went through in his personal life.