The double / Fyodor Dostoyevsky ; translated by Hugh Aplin.

By:

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881 [author]

Contributor(s):

Aplin, Hugh A [translator]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Russian Series: Alma Classics EvergreensPublication details: London : Alma Classics, 2016.Description: ix, 208 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm.ISBN:

9781847496034

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LOC classification:

PG3326.D8 2016

Summary: 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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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.