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One of Dostoevsky's vices gives a symbolic, tangible form to what is the very essence of His Being: the sickly mania for gambling.
From a young age, he has a passion for cards - but only in Europe does he discover the diabolical mirror of his nervousness: Red and Black, roulette, this dangerously primal game within his primitive duality.
The green baize of Baden, the roulette of Monte Carlo are his most intense ecstasies in Europe: they hypnotize him more than the Montana of the Sistine, the statues of Michelangelo, the southern landscapes, the art and culture of the entire world.
Because there he finds the intensity, the final decision: black or red, odd or even, happiness or annihilation, loss or gain - condensed into those seconds when the wheel spins: the intensity concentrated within that instant of pain or pleasure, as yearned for by his temperament.
[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]
Manufacturer
- Author
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Publisher
- Ekdoseis Govosti
- Publishers
- Gavostis Publications
- Type
- Classic Literature
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 240
- Dimensions
- 13x18 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9789602701140
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