The Double (Evergreens)
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Product Description
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.
Review
“The real nineteenth-century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx.” – Albert Camus“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
About the Author
Fyodor Dostoevsky was a Russian novelist and writer of fiction whose works, including
Crime and Punishment and
The Brothers Karamazov, have had a profound and lasting effect on intellectual thought and world literature.
