The Double
- ISBN-10
- 1847496032
- ISBN-13
- 9781847496034
- Series
- The Double
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 256
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-08-25
- Publisher
- Alma Classics
- Author
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Description
Constantly rebuffed from the social circles he aspires to frequent, the timid clerk Golyadkin is confronted by the sudden appearance of his double, a more brazen, confident and socially successful version of himself, who abuses and victimizes the original. As he is increasingly persecuted, Golyadkin finds his social, romantic and professional life unravelling, in a spiral that leads to a catastrophic denouement. The Double, Dostoevsky's second published work of fiction, which foreshadows in its themes many of his mature novels, is the surreal and hallucinatory tale of an unfortunate anti-hero, at once chilling in its depiction of the dark sides of human nature and exuberantly comical.
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- 2022-05-24
- 288 pages
- Paperback
- Princeton University Press
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