The Double

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Overview

The Double
by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Double is a novella written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.The Double centers on a government clerk who goes mad. It deals with the internal psychological struggle of its main character, Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin, who repeatedly encounters someone who is his exact double in appearance but confident, aggressive, and extroverted, characteristics that are the polar opposites to those of the toadying "pushover" protagonist. The motif of the novella is a doppelg�nger (Russian "dvoynik"), known throughout the world in various guises such as the fetch.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940149405374
Publisher:	Apps Publisher
Publication date:	04/26/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Fyodor Dostoevsky, son of a Moscow doctor, graduate of a military academy, and rising star of Russian literature, found himself standing in front of a firing squad, accused of subversive activities against the Russian Tsar. Then the drums rolled, signaling that instead he was to be exiled to the living death of Siberia.

Siberia was so cold the mercury froze in the thermometer. In prison, Dostoevsky was surrounded by murderers, thieves, parricides, and brigands who drank heavily, quarreled incessantly, and fought with horrible brutality. However, while "prisoners were piled on top of each other in the barracks, and the floor was matted with an inch of filth," Dostoevsky learned a great deal about the human condition that was to impact his writing as nothing had before.