Name: The Double: New Translation
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Author: Fiódor M. Dostoievski
ISBN: 9781847496034

Type

Physical Book

Author

Fiódor M. Dostoievski

Translated by

Hugh Aplin

Publisher

Alma Books

Language

English

Pages

256

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.6 x 12.7 x 1.8 cm

Weight

0.25 kg.

ISBN13

9781847496034

Synopsis "The Double: New Translation"

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.

Fiódor M. Dostoievski

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Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (Moscow, November 11, 1821-Saint Petersburg, February 9, 1881) was one of the main writers of Tsarist Russia, whose literature explores human psychology in the complex political, social, and spiritual context of Russian society in the second half of the 19th century

He is considered one of the greatest writers of the West and of world literature.

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