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The Double is a vivid, relentless depiction of one man’s downward spiral into the impulsivity, indecision, tormenting confusion and ultimate chaos of severe mental illness. Golyadkin’s agonizing descent, fueled by alienation, paranoia and self-loathing, is incredibly gripping.
The Double: A Petersburg Poem (Russian: Двойник. Петербургская поэма, romanized: Dvoynik. Peterburgskaya poema) is a novel written by Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published on 30 January 1846 in the Otechestvennye zapiski. It was subsequently revised and republished by Dostoevsky in 1866.
Nov 3, 2023 · Fyodor Dostoevsky’s second novel, The Double, begins as the protagonist, Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin, a low-level bureaucrat living in St. Petersburg, awakens in his dreary, sparsely furnished ...
Oct 3, 2005 · Against his better judgment, Tertuliano decides to pursue his double. As he roots out the man's identity, what begins as a whimsical story becomes a "wonderfully twisted meditation on identity and individuality" (The Boston Globe).
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The Double, novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, published in 1846 in Russian as Dvoynik. It is a classic of doppelgänger literature. The Double is the first of many works by Dostoyevsky to reveal his fascination with psychological doubles. The morbidly sensitive and pretentious clerk Golyadkin, already.
The Double (Portuguese: O Homem Duplicado) is a 2002 novel by Portuguese author José Saramago, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998. In Portuguese, the title is literally "The Duplicated Man." It was translated into English and published as The Double in 2004.
