Gambler

One of Dostoevsky's shorter novels, "e;The Gambler"e; reflects the author's own difficult and prolonged battles with gambling as one of his major addictions. It is the story of a young man with aspirations to see and go beyond the established order, but in reality only gets stuck deeper and deeper into addiction and degradation. Dostoevsky does a great job in painting the psychological portrait of the protagonist, Alexey, who is having difficulties finding meaning in life and himself. Fyodor Dostoevsky was a famous Russian writer of novels, short stories, and essays. A connoisseur of the troubled human psyche and the relationships between the individuals, Dostoevsky's oeuvre covers a large area of subjects: politics, religion, social issues, philosophy, and the uncharted realms of the psychological. He is most famous for the novels "e;Crime and Punishment"e;, "e;The Idiot"e;, and "e;The Brothers Karamazov"e;. His literary legacy was met with mixed feelings, but remains gargantuan in its influence.