“People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people.” ☘ Opinião em Português ☘ This book was my first ride through Dostoievski books, and I couldn’t have started in a better way. In October of 1866, the editors put Dostoivesky under pressure to deliver a novel by the end of the year, otherwise Dostoievsky wouldn’t get paid for 9 years for his, already published, books. So, he wrote The Gambler in just little over 20 days. Alexei Ivanovitch is a young tutor working for a Russian family, that currently are in the imaginary city of Roulettenbad, in Germany. Alexei is in love with his employer’s stepdaughter, Polina, and tries to demystify the reason of why Polina always asks him to play the roulette claiming that she needs money urgently. Dostoievsky writes this book as if a Diary and we fall to Alexei’s li...