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.
ISBN: | 9781847496034 |
Publisher: | Alma Books COMMIS |
Imprint: | Alma Classics |
Published date: | 25 Aug 2016 |
DEWEY: | 891.733 |
DEWEY edition: | 23 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | xiii, 208 |
Weight: | 206g |
Height: | 129mm |
Width: | 198mm |
Spine width: | 15mm |