The Double (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781500904173)

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.

Author: Dostoyevsky Fyodor Mikhailovich
ISBN-10: 1500904171
ISBN-13: 9781500904173
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 08/21/2014
Pages: 164
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.35d