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Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Double

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 origina
ISBN: 9781847496034
Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Page: 208
Binding: Soft cover
Publication date: 2016
Format: Book
Publisher: ALMA BOOKS
Language: English

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Price: 3 750 Ft

Stock: 1-10 copies

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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.

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