Gambler: Did It Really Start Like This?

By Tolga Çağlayan

The roulette ball spinning on the game table does not only spin among the numbers, but also in the deepest recesses of the human soul...
This novel is a gambling table opening onto Dostoyevsky's life. A journey from the streets of Petersburg, his childhood, to his Siberian exile, from nights spent in debt, to the immortal pages of literature. But what is told here is not just a story of cards, dice, or chips; it is a gamble of beliefs, ideals, regrets, and irreversible choices.
Dostoyevsky placed the biggest bets not only on the tables but also in life itself. Every novel he wrote was part of a grand game he entered into with his conscience, society, and God. From Raskolnikov To Myshkin, all his characters, from the underground man to the gambler, were different faces of his soul.
And now, in these pages, the grand finale is being played out... Under the dim lights of a casino, Dostoyevsky sits at a table. Opposite him is Raskolnikov ... At the side tables are Myshkin, Stavrogin, and Nastasya. Filippovna, Alyosha, Smerdyakov ... They're all there, they're all part of the end game. And this time, the stakes aren't just money; they're the past, the future, and the human soul itself.
Some gambles are played not to win, but to exist.
This novel is the story of precisely that gamble.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FMKDH67H
• ISBN13: 9798298208055
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 86 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"