| Summary: | The apparent motivation of gamblers is financial benefit. But their real motivation is often less linked to financial interest than to existential questions. Literature brings this point out, especially since Dostojevski's Gambler, and until now, in the 21st century, in Jours de chance, written by Philippe Adam in 2011. Between these two novels, Aragon’s Les Voyageurs de l'impériale shows a mediocre heroe, Mercadier, who could have found a meaning to his life through gambling, if he were not destructed by individualism. Actually, the money of gambling is not included in any trade channel, does not allow to the individual to enter any community. It circulates as a flow, but in a closed channel, and it only sustains the gambler and his passion.
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