Sunk in debt and addicted to gambling, in the fall of 1966 Dostoevsky was due to deliver a novel to his publisher, but the writing of Crime and Punishment, in which he was immersed, would not come to an end so soon. He then embarked on the frantic journey of writing a story that had already taken shape in his head. Love, gambling, and a lucrative inheritance intertwine in his work, The Gambler, in which the meticulous psychological analysis of the characters once again stands out as one of the essential features of the Russian novelist's prose.