The Double

The Double - Paperback

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The Double - Paperback

The Double - Paperback

by Constance Garnett , Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
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by Constance Garnett (Author), Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (Author)

he Double centers on a government clerk who goes mad. It deals with the internal psychological struggle of its main character, Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin, who repeatedly encounters someone who is his exact double in appearance but confident, aggressive, and extroverted, characteristics that are the polar opposites to those of the toadying "pushover" protagonist. The motif of the novella is a doppelgänger (Russian "dvoynik"), known throughout the world in various guises such as the fetch.

Number of Pages: 166
Dimensions: 0.35 x 9 x 6 IN
Publication Date: November 30, 2016
ISBN9781540723246
Author Constance Garnett , Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
PublisherCreatespace Independent Publishing Platform
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedNovember 2016
LanguageENG- English
Pages166
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (11 November 1821- 9 February 1881) is considered one of two greatest prose writers of Russian literature, alongside close contemporary Leo Tolstoy. Dostoevsky's works have had a profound and lasting effect on twentieth-century thought and world literature. Dostoevsky's chief ouevre, mainly novels, explore the human psychology in the disturbing political, social and spiritual context of his 19th-century Russian society. Considered by many as a founder or precursor of 20th-century existentialism, his Notes from Underground (1864), written in the anonymous, embittered voice of the Underground Man, is considered by Walter Kaufmann as the "best overture for existentialism ever written."

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