The Double

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Overview

Most significant of the Russian novelist's early stories (1846) offers a straight-faced treatment of a hallucinatory theme. Golyadkin senior is a powerless target of persecution by Golyadkin junior, his double in almost every respect. Familiar Dostoyevskan themes of helplessness, victimization, scandal—beautifully handled in small masterpiece.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781535362412
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	07/19/2016
Pages:	164
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.35(d)

About the Author

With his sympathetic portrayals of the downtrodden of 19th-century Russian society, Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881) exercised immense influence on modern writers. His novels featured profound philosophical and psychological insights that anticipated the development of psychoanalysis and existentialism.