Most significant of the Russian novelist's early stories (1846) offers a straight-faced treatment of a hallucinatory theme. Golyadkin senior is a powerless target of persecution by Golyadkin junior, his double in almost every respect.
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 ...
Call it fact. Call it fiction. Call it faction, if you like. The story told in these pages is fiction based on fact. A while back, an elderly Scotsman named Philip Jacobs approached the author with this story.
This compelling book tells the inside story of the double-winning campaign through extensive interviews with players, directors, managers and fans.
It also draws on archive material including programmes, press cuttings and material in Spurs's own archive at White Hart Lane. This is however, not just a book about Tottenham Hotspur.
The Double centers on a government clerk who goes mad.
As this novel by the author of Blindness and All the Names begins, Tertuliano Máximo Afonso is a divorced, depressed history teacher. To lift his spirits, a colleague suggests he rent a certain video.
. . Spero Lucas confronts his own in the most explosive thriller yet from one of America's best-loved crime writers. The job seems simple enough: retrieve the valuable painting -- "The Double" -- Grace Kinkaid's ex-boyfriend stole from her.
Inspired by Dostoyevsky's short story, The Double tells the story of Simon, a timid man, scratching out an isolated existence in an indifferent world.
The Double examines this essential concept through the lens of art, from modernism to contemporary practice—from the paired paintings of Henri Matisse and Arshile Gorky, to the double line works of Piet Mondrian and Marlow Moss, to Eva ...
Double: A Psychoanalytic Study
Drawing upon theology, Jungian psychology, literature, and the history of Christian spirituality, this book shows how same-sex desire can be reflected in those close intimacy between gay men.
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positive note about The Double: I hear on the quiet (and from many people) such rumors about Golyadkin that it's awful. Some say outright that this work is a wonder and not understood. That it will play a fearsome role in the future, ...
After an uncomfortable and embarrassing evening at a party, the unsociable Golyadkin meets his double and soon discovers that this more charming and successful version of himself intends to take over his life and drive him to the edge of ...
Golyadkin, a civil servant, comes home from work after a particularly frustrating day to see another man - his double - slipping into his room in front of him. With...
Tertuliano Mximo Afonso is a history teacher in a secondary school. He is divorced, involved in a rather one-sided relationship with a bank clerk, and he is depressed. To lift...
For fans of beautifully written, psychologically probing crime "A completely engrossing read! I found Ann's writing compelling, elegant and convincing, and the story pulled me in and totally transported me.
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Every man has his dark side.