Dostoyevsky, Fyodor 1821-1881 creator Filosofov, Dmitriĭ Vladimirovich 1872-1940 Merezhkovsky, Dmitry Sergeyevich 1865-1941 Moeller van den Bruck, Arthur 1876-1925 Rahsin, E. K. 1886-1966 text utu 2025 monographic de 1 online resource : multiple file formats "Sämtliche Werke 21 : Der Spieler. Der ewige Gatte : Zwei Romane" by Dostoyevsky is a collection of two novels written in the late 19th century. The volume couples a tale of gambling fever and romantic obsession at a European spa with a stark psychological study of jealousy and humiliation. In the first, a young Russian tutor is drawn to the roulette table and to the proud Polina amid a circle of schemers and pretenders; in the second, a haunted widower confronts a former rival. Across both, money, pride, and desire strip away social veneers among émigré Russians abroad. The opening of Der Spieler follows Alexei, tutor to a Russian General’s family, as he rejoins them in Roulettenburg, where they posture as wealthy while quietly awaiting an inheritance from the ailing “Babushka.” The General dazzles and borrows, a slick French “marquis” and the calculating Mademoiselle Blanche circle, and the shy Englishman Mr. Astley silently adores Polina. Alexei’s charged, unequal bond with Polina dominates: she commands him to gamble for her, and he first wins a tidy sum, then rashly loses everything, even as he grows convinced he will surely win when playing for himself. Between tense dinners and nationalist spats, Alexei studies the casino’s rituals, the genteel pose versus plebeian hunger, and the household’s dependence on news of the old woman’s death. Polina hints at urgent debts and presses him for more money, while Alexei’s pride, passion, and fatalism harden into a vow to test his luck alone. The section ends with their strained exchange hanging in the air and the roulette wheel looming as his chosen fate. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Translations of Игрокъ (Igrok) and Вечный муж (Vechny muzh). Release date is 2025-09-07 The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library. Originally published: Muenchen: Piper, 1910 Psychological fiction Gamblers -- Fiction Russia -- Social life and customs -- 1533-1917 -- Fiction Russians -- Germany -- Fiction PG Muenchen: Piper, 1910 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.a0005373832 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76832 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.a0005373832 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76832 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134759.0 76832