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8 episodes in this season

Martin Eden (di Jack London)

49 min

Natural Histories (by Primo Levi)

55 min

Waiting for Godot (by Samuel Beckett)

50 min

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The Gambler (by Fyodor Dostoevsky)

50 min

Frankenstein (di Mary Shelley)

50 min

Poirot at Styles Court (by Agatha Christie)

48 min

The Life Ahead (by Romain Gary)

50 min

Reunion (by Fred Uhlman)

55 min

For a Handful of Books

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199850m9.0

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The Gambler (by Fyodor Dostoevsky)

Season 23 · Episode 4 · Feb 8, 2020

The fourth episode sees the Liceo Classico "Giulio Cesare" of Rome and the Liceo Classico "Renato Cartesio" of Villaricca (NA) compete on the novel "The Gambler", written in 1866 by one of the most important novelists of all time: the Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky. Set in a German spa town, Roulettenburg, whose casino attracts numerous tourists, the main theme of "The Gambler" is gambling that infects and besieges the book's protagonist, Aleksej Ivànovic, who narrates his story and that of the other characters in the book in the first person. Dostoevsky, with his unparalleled capacity for analysis and introspection, tells us in this novel the downward spiral of a man who is a victim of his own vice. "A self-conscious and unredeemed free fall, waiting for the last, definitive, rien ne va plus!".

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For a Handful of Books

TV Series

199850m9.0

Talk

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The Gambler (by Fyodor Dostoevsky)

Season 23 · Episode 4 · Feb 8, 2020

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