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The Gambler is a novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky about a youngish tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian civil servant.
The book was the basis of an opera by Sergei Prokofiev, also called The Gambler, as well as Hungarian director Károly Makk's film The Gambler (1997), which is about Dostoyevsky writing the novella.
Plot summary
The story is written in first person, as are many of Dostoevsky's works, and chronicles a period of time spent in a spa town in Germany in the mid-19th century. The story is narrated by a minor member of a once prosperous General's household, who is named Alexei Ivanovich. One of the story's main plot points is the retired widower General waiting to receive news of his aunt's death so as to receive her fortune and marry an attractive young French woman. The other main plot point is that of the narrator's desire for the General's stepdaughter, as well as the narrator's eventual slide into destitution and addiction to roulette.
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