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Episode Details: Il giocatore (di Fedor Dostoevskij)
Il giocatore (di Fedor Dostoevskij)
Series: Per un pugno di libri
Season: Season 23
Episode Number: 4
Air Date:
Duration: 50 min
The fourth episode sees the Liceo Classico "Giulio Cesare" of Rome and the Liceo Classico "Renato Cartesio" of Villaricca (NA) compete on the novel "The Gambler", written in 1866 by one of the most important novelists of all time: the Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky. Set in a German spa town, Roulettenburg, whose casino attracts numerous tourists, the main theme of "The Gambler" is gambling that infects and besieges the book's protagonist, Aleksej Ivànovic, who narrates his story and that of the other characters in the book in the first person. Dostoevsky, with his unparalleled capacity for analysis and introspection, tells us in this novel the downward spiral of a man who is a victim of his own vice. "A self-conscious and unredeemed free fall, waiting for the last, definitive, rien ne va plus!". At stake, as always, is not money, but works of genius (i.e. many books) and the possibility of accessing the final between the two best-ranked classes during the program.