2018年4月25日水曜日

The Queen of Spade by Pushkin

  Very interesting. Excellent description of the situations and Harman’s and Ivanovna’s psychology. A lot of humor and good metaphors. The ending is unexpectedly too simple.
  Harman breaks his fast not to gamble, but he wants money. So he uses Ivanovna to get the key three cards numbers from old countess, but while he was ordering her to tell the key numbers, she dies. However, in his dream the late countess tells the three numbers. He goes to gamble and wins twice, but at the third game, he makes a mistake and loses all his money.
 

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