Notes from Underground and The Gambler (Oxford World's Classics)
 

Notes from Underground and The Gambler (Oxford World's Classics)

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

One of the most profound and disturbing works of nineteenth-century literature, Notes from the Underground is a probing and speculative work, often regarded as a forerunner to the Existentialist movement. The Gambler explores the compulsive nature of gambling, one of Dostoevsky's own vices and a subject he describes with extraordinary acumen and drama. Both works are new translations,... (read more)

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I don't know whether Dostoyevsky was mad or morbidly sensitive or both: I do know that he is the most unflinching author of his kind in portraying the inner dance of the psyche, with its fits and its swings and its exhaustions. This is an incredible book, and one which I wanted to read again immediately upon finishing.

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