El jugador es una novela de Fiodor Dostoyevski escrita en 1866 y publicada en 1867 sobre un joven tutor empleado por un antiguo general ruso. La novela refleja la propia adiccion de Dostoyevski al juego de la ruleta durante su estancia en Wiesbaden, presentada como la ciudad ficticia de Roulettenbourg de la novela, y su pasional estadia en Europa con Apollinaria (Polina) Prokofievna Suslova, de quien se enamoro perdidamente. Dostoyevski completo su obra bajo condicion del cumplimiento de un plazo que, mediante un contrato, le impuso el editor Fiodor Stelovski para que escribiese una novela...

The Idiot is a novel by the 19th-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was first published serially in the journal The Russian Messenger in 1868-9. The title is an ironic reference to the central character of the novel, Prince (Knyaz) Lyov Nikolaevich Myshkin, a young man whose goodness and open-hearted simplicity lead many of the more worldly characters he encounters to mistakenly assume that he lacks intelligence and insight. In the character of Prince Myshkin, Dostoevsky set himself the task of depicting -the positively good and beautiful man-.

Le prince Mychkine est un etre fondamentalement bon, mais sa bonte confine a la naivete et a l'idiotie, meme s'il est capable d'analyses psychologiques tres fines. Apres avoir passe sa jeunesse en Suisse dans un sanatorium pour soigner son epilepsie (maladie dont etait egalement atteint Dostoievski) doublee d'une sorte d'autisme, il retourne en Russie pour penetrer les cercles fermes de la societe russe. Lors de la soiree d'anniversaire de Nastassia Filippovna, le prince Mychkine voit un jeune bourgeois, Parfen Semenovitch Rogojine arriver ivre et offrir une forte somme d'argent a la jeune...

Le prince Mychkine est un etre fondamentalement bon, mais sa bonte confine a la naivete et a l'idiotie, meme s'il est capable d'analyses psychologiques tres fines. Apres avoir passe sa jeunesse en Suisse dans un sanatorium pour soigner son epilepsie (maladie dont etait egalement atteint Dostoievski) doublee d'une sorte d'autisme, il retourne en Russie pour penetrer les cercles fermes de la societe russe. Lors de la soiree d'anniversaire de Nastassia Filippovna, le prince Mychkine voit un jeune bourgeois, Parfen Semenovitch Rogojine arriver ivre et offrir une forte somme d'argent a la jeune...

-The Dream of a Ridiculous Man- is a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky written in 1877. It chronicles the experiences of a man who decides that there is nothing of any value in the world. Slipping into nihilism with the -terrible anguish- he is determined to commit suicide. A chance encounter with a young girl, however, begins the man on a journey that re-instills a love for his fellow man. It was first published in A Writer's Diary. A BBC production called -The Dream- (1990) was adapted by Murray Watts from -The Dream of a Ridiculous Man-. -The Dream- is a monologue. The director was Norman...

The Possessed, also translated as The Devils or Demons, is an 1872 novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky. For an explanation of the marked difference in the English-language title, please see the section -Note on the title- below. An extremely political book, The Possessed is a testimonial of life in Imperial Russia in the late 19th century. As the revolutionary democrats begin to rise in Russia, different ideologies begin to collide. Dostoevsky casts a critical eye on both the left-wing idealists, exposing their ideas and ideological foundation as demonic, and the conservative establishment's...