Dostoevsky part for the first time to the West in early June 1863. E 'to Paris, but when it goes to Wiesbaden, then one of the capitals of the game in Europe, like the other cities Water Germany, Baden-Baden, Hamburg, EMS, gets off the train and tries his luck at roulette, attracted by the illusory descriptions read Russian newspapers.
not long past, Dostoevsky, advised by his doctor, since his seizures became more frequent, he decides to leave again for Europe. His tubercular wife is dying and he needs to reach her friend in Paris Polina Suslova (Apolinarija Suslova, foreshadowed the character of Polina Alexandrovna Player). The departure, however, is continually postponed, and Polina, impatient, falls in love with a English student. Dostoevsky, furious, then you put on the road, but, again, going to Wiesbaden, yield to the temptation of roulette.
arriving in Paris, finds that Polina has just broken up with English, so we propose to leave together for Italy, not giving up, however, to go to Baden-Baden and Wiesbaden, where they lose all the money he had managed to gain.
E 'then that is the idea of \u200b\u200bwriting a novel about the game. Strachov friend writes from Rome, September 18, 1863 [1] :
For now I have nothing ready, but I have a nice project in mind. I noted in part on waste paper [...]. The subject is this: the type of the Russian abroad. All this is in the novel, but I want you to reflect, to the extent that it is possible, the current state of our inner life. I think of a man whose character is completely open, a man who is interested in different subjects, but incomplete in each. He has lost all faith, but at the same time dare not be unbelieving. It 'a once rebellious to authority and frightened by it. Consoles himself thinking that there is nothing to be done for him in Russia, and condemns all those who would bluntly call at home the Russians living abroad. But I can not tell you everything now. [...] The essential point is that all of its lifeblood, its strengths, its impetus and boldness are absorbed by the roulette. [...] My hero is a poet in his own way, but he is ashamed of this poem he feels deeply the baseness. However, the need to risk anything raises him up again from their eyes. The story will speak only of the three years when he played roulette.
until several years later Dostoevsky realize his project, after several trips and assiduous attendance of gaming tables in Germany, after the death of his wife and brother. Weighed down by creditors, signing a contract with the publisher Stellovskij for the publication of his complete works, promising to deliver an unpublished novel by 1 November 1866, or risk losing all rights to this edition and the obligation to repay the money who had already received. But when he already had an advance from another publisher for Crime and Punishment has to finish two books with impossible deadlines.
So when Dostoevsky finally writes his story, you play the last card. If you do not win the bet to write this, he loses everything. The circumstances of writing agree too well with the theme that, an issue that for years has wanted to develop, not only with the hope of earning some money, but also hoping to stop losing, because this book is an exorcism. It strives, describing it, to neutralize the passion of the game that overwhelms him.
personality with such force that lives in these pages before for its author that we want to separate from his Dostoevsky, the author wants to get rid of this that devours its double and ruin. And 'So he speaks, but trying to differentiate himself from the hero, placing him in very specific circumstances, emphasizing the separation from him, so that when the last lines of the book will read: "Tomorrow, tomorrow it will all end "He can hope that these words will be true to himself, for him, Fyodor Dostoevsky, that is to say that from now on will have the wisdom not to play anymore, and all the inevitability of roulette, which unsuccessfully tried to escape until then, will fall on its scapegoat, which is Alexei Ivanovitch. Writing
Player, then, Dostoevsky play, play the game for free, to silence the player that is in him. If
beginning of the story the players are separated from those who merely look at the gentlemen, with the arrival of the grandmother dissolves this distinction. If at the beginning of the story, the general and his entourage always manage to look good, to behave in a reasonable manner, with the unpredictable behavior of the grandmother, who sarcastically can associate with the ball spinning into the cuvette, this attitude is not content as possible. Alexei
If he starts to play really is humiliating because it was driven the general and see how quickly around the roulette table will regain the respect due to the sums of money, which is decided on the small ball.
In a society where respect depends so much money, no one has questioned its origin, if the table is the place where you can earn money very quickly, we can say that it is also ' only defense for one who is afflicted.
If Alexei is not saved at the end of the book, if sinks in hell the game is because it is only, despite the capricious and distant attachment he feels for him Polina. Dostoevsky, he, as he was completing the draft, he pointed to another woman, Ana, who helped him as a stenographer and later became his wife three months. When it puts the final point, when delivering the manuscript into the hands of the police commissioner, hopes to leave, locked in the cage that he built, his unfortunate double. So he will be freed.
[1] Dostoevsky (1866), The Gambler, introduction by Michel Butor, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, Milan, 1991, pag.VI.
not long past, Dostoevsky, advised by his doctor, since his seizures became more frequent, he decides to leave again for Europe. His tubercular wife is dying and he needs to reach her friend in Paris Polina Suslova (Apolinarija Suslova, foreshadowed the character of Polina Alexandrovna Player). The departure, however, is continually postponed, and Polina, impatient, falls in love with a English student. Dostoevsky, furious, then you put on the road, but, again, going to Wiesbaden, yield to the temptation of roulette.
arriving in Paris, finds that Polina has just broken up with English, so we propose to leave together for Italy, not giving up, however, to go to Baden-Baden and Wiesbaden, where they lose all the money he had managed to gain.
E 'then that is the idea of \u200b\u200bwriting a novel about the game. Strachov friend writes from Rome, September 18, 1863 [1] :
For now I have nothing ready, but I have a nice project in mind. I noted in part on waste paper [...]. The subject is this: the type of the Russian abroad. All this is in the novel, but I want you to reflect, to the extent that it is possible, the current state of our inner life. I think of a man whose character is completely open, a man who is interested in different subjects, but incomplete in each. He has lost all faith, but at the same time dare not be unbelieving. It 'a once rebellious to authority and frightened by it. Consoles himself thinking that there is nothing to be done for him in Russia, and condemns all those who would bluntly call at home the Russians living abroad. But I can not tell you everything now. [...] The essential point is that all of its lifeblood, its strengths, its impetus and boldness are absorbed by the roulette. [...] My hero is a poet in his own way, but he is ashamed of this poem he feels deeply the baseness. However, the need to risk anything raises him up again from their eyes. The story will speak only of the three years when he played roulette.
until several years later Dostoevsky realize his project, after several trips and assiduous attendance of gaming tables in Germany, after the death of his wife and brother. Weighed down by creditors, signing a contract with the publisher Stellovskij for the publication of his complete works, promising to deliver an unpublished novel by 1 November 1866, or risk losing all rights to this edition and the obligation to repay the money who had already received. But when he already had an advance from another publisher for Crime and Punishment has to finish two books with impossible deadlines.
So when Dostoevsky finally writes his story, you play the last card. If you do not win the bet to write this, he loses everything. The circumstances of writing agree too well with the theme that, an issue that for years has wanted to develop, not only with the hope of earning some money, but also hoping to stop losing, because this book is an exorcism. It strives, describing it, to neutralize the passion of the game that overwhelms him.
personality with such force that lives in these pages before for its author that we want to separate from his Dostoevsky, the author wants to get rid of this that devours its double and ruin. And 'So he speaks, but trying to differentiate himself from the hero, placing him in very specific circumstances, emphasizing the separation from him, so that when the last lines of the book will read: "Tomorrow, tomorrow it will all end "He can hope that these words will be true to himself, for him, Fyodor Dostoevsky, that is to say that from now on will have the wisdom not to play anymore, and all the inevitability of roulette, which unsuccessfully tried to escape until then, will fall on its scapegoat, which is Alexei Ivanovitch. Writing
Player, then, Dostoevsky play, play the game for free, to silence the player that is in him. If
beginning of the story the players are separated from those who merely look at the gentlemen, with the arrival of the grandmother dissolves this distinction. If at the beginning of the story, the general and his entourage always manage to look good, to behave in a reasonable manner, with the unpredictable behavior of the grandmother, who sarcastically can associate with the ball spinning into the cuvette, this attitude is not content as possible. Alexei
If he starts to play really is humiliating because it was driven the general and see how quickly around the roulette table will regain the respect due to the sums of money, which is decided on the small ball.
In a society where respect depends so much money, no one has questioned its origin, if the table is the place where you can earn money very quickly, we can say that it is also ' only defense for one who is afflicted.
If Alexei is not saved at the end of the book, if sinks in hell the game is because it is only, despite the capricious and distant attachment he feels for him Polina. Dostoevsky, he, as he was completing the draft, he pointed to another woman, Ana, who helped him as a stenographer and later became his wife three months. When it puts the final point, when delivering the manuscript into the hands of the police commissioner, hopes to leave, locked in the cage that he built, his unfortunate double. So he will be freed.
[1] Dostoevsky (1866), The Gambler, introduction by Michel Butor, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, Milan, 1991, pag.VI.
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