TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
AU  - Aplin, Hugh A.
TI  - The double
T2  - Alma Classics Evergreens
SN  - 9781847496034
AV  - PG3326.D8 2016 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - London
PB  - Alma Classics
KW  - Doppelgängers
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Russian fiction
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Translations into English
KW  - Saint Petersburg (Russia)
KW  - Russian literature
KW  - Psychological fiction
N1  - Translated from the Russian
N2  - 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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