The fate of Alexis Ivanovitch, consumed by two passions equal, play and the love of a woman, reveals the image of a humanity full of mad desires and aspirations uncontrolled doomed to eternal longing for happiness or hope of salvation. Player is possessed of a direct confession to breathlessly and familiar. 2000. Dictated in twenty-seven days a stenographer, published in 1866, the same year as Crime and Punishment, the novel tormented, which incorporates the legacy of Russian romanticism and opens completions major Dostoyevsky provides access to entering the universe of the great writer.