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When Dostoyevsky loses all fortune at roulette, he aims to write a book on the hell of the game. The story takes place in Roulettenbourg, Germany. We follow a young man named Alexis Ivanovitch who works as "Uchitel" (tutor) for the children of a general. Psychology is strongly present in this novel. Alexis loves her employer's stepdaughter and decides to earn money to seduce her. Unfortunately, he falls little by little into the mad passion of the game. At first, Paulina is contemptuous, strange, and ungrateful, but at the bottom hides a beautiful soul afraid of life. The general is desperately awaiting the death of his aunt Baboulinka so he can marry Blanche, a young and beautiful Frenchwoman on the lookout for the general's legacy. The author offers us a picture of the bourgeois society of his time while plunging us into a thrilling universe. The Player was a tremendous first discovery of the Russian world; he handled him brilliantly.