# The Double and the Gambler - Paperback

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by **Fyodor Dostoyevsky** (Author), **Richard Pevear** (Translator), **Larissa Volokhonsky** (Translator)

**Two award-winning translators present the definitive English versions of Fyodor Dostoevsky's strikingly original short novels _The Double_ and _The Gambler_**  
  
**"Pevear and Volokhonsky may be the premier Russian-to-English translators of the era."--_The New Yorker_**  
  
_The Double_ is a surprisingly modern hallucinatory nightmare--foreshadowing Kafka and Sartre--in which a minor official named Goliadkin becomes aware of a mysterious doppelganger, a man who has his name and his face and who gradually and relentlessly begins to displace him with his friends and colleagues. In the dilemma of this increasingly paranoid hero, Dostoevsky makes vividly concrete the inner disintegration of consciousness that would become a major theme of his work.

_The Gambler_ is a stunning psychological portrait of a young man's exhilarating and destructive addiction to gambling, a compulsion that Dostoevsky--who once gambled away his young wife's wedding ring--knew intimately from his own experience. In chronicling the disastrous love affairs and gambling adventures of Alexei Ivanovich, Dostoevsky explores the irresistible temptation to look into the abyss of ultimate risk that he believed was an essential part of the Russian national character.

Chillingly psychological with timeless portrayals of obsession and destruction, these stunning translations offer a glimpse into the mind of one of the nineteenth century's most acclaimed writers.

### Author Biography

About the Translators: Richard Pevear has published translations of Alain, Yves Bonnefoy, Alberto Savinio, Pavel Florensky, and Henri Volohonsky, as well as two books of poetry. He has received fellowships or grants for translation from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the French Ministry of Culture. Larissa Volokhonsky was born in Leningrad. She has translated works by the prominent Orthodox theologians Alexander Schmemann and John Meyendorff into Russian. Together, Pevear and Volokhonsky have translated _Dead Souls and The Collected Tales_ by Nikolai Gogol, _The Complete Short Novels of Chekhov_, and _The Brothers Karamazov_, _Crime and Punishment_, _Notes from Underground_, _Demons_, _The Idiot_, and _The Adolescent_ by Fyodor Dostoevsky. They were awarded the PEN Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize for their version of _The Brothers Karamazov_ and of Tolstoy's _Anna Karenina_, and their translation of Dostoevsky's _Demons_ was one of three nominees for the same prize. They are married and live in France.

**Number of Pages:** 368

**Dimensions:** 0.9 x 7.8 x 5.1 IN

**Publication Date:** January 16, 2007

## Details

- **Price:** 25.0 GBP
- **Vendor:** BooksCloud
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** Books, Classics, Fiction, Price Written on Book, Psychological, Short Stories (single author), Thrillers

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