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The Double

The Double

By Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

Published by SNR Audio

English 2023 ISBN 9781805360704
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"What's the use of all this if in the end I am still alone?" Dostoyevsky's second published work, The Double, is a surprisingly modern hallucinatory nightmare in which a timid government official named Golyadkin becomes aware of a mysterious doppelgänger, an unsettling mirror of himself who embodies all the traits Golyadkin lacks: confidence, charm, and a complete disregard for societal norms. As his double gradually and ruthlessly begins to displace him with his friends and colleagues, Golyadkin finds his social, romantic and professional life entering a downward spiral that drives him into paranoia and finds him facing a relentless battle against his own identity. The Double is significant in Dostoevsky's body of work as it points towards his later explorations of existentialism and the complexity of human nature in novels such as Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov. Fyodor Dostoyevsky was a Russian novelist, journalist, and short-story writer renowned for his profound explorations of psychology, morality, and the human condition. Born in Moscow, his tumultuous life was marked by early literary success and followed by arrest and exile due to his radical political activities. He is widely regarded as one of the world's finest novelists, penning classics that include Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Demons, and The Brothers Karamazov. His work has had an immense influence on 20th-century fiction and his ideas have profoundly shaped literary modernism, existentialism, and various schools of psychology, theology, and literary criticism.
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