The Double

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Overview

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. Familiar Dostoyevskan themes of helplessness, victimization, scandal—beautifully handled in small masterpiece.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781600960857
Publisher:	The Editorium
Publication date:	07/30/2008
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.41(d)

About the Author

Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) is considered one of the greatest writers of all time. His works include such seminal novels as Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov.

Table of Contents

	Foreword	vii
	Introduction	xi
	The Double	1
	Notes	161
	Biographical note	163

Editorial Reviews

Not one of the author's better-known works, this 1846 novel introduces Golyadkin, a man who one day meets his exact double. The double is not only physically identical but has the same name and background. Golyadkin's happy life spirals downward into paranoia and neurosis as his friends begin to abandon him for the doppelganger. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

"The most impressive thing about The Double is how pertinent it feels today . . . like all the best fiction, The Double reinvents and rewrites itself for the current age" - Jeremy Dyson

"The real nineteenth-century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx." - Albert Camus

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