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by Fyodor M. Dostoevsky (Author)
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This novella, first published in 1846, deals with the internal struggle of its main character, "our hero" Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin (which means "naked" or "insignificant.") The narrator depicts a man whose life and reputation are threatened by the appearance of a double of himself, who tries to claim his position in the Russian bureaucracy and social circle.

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Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 81) is regarded as one of the greatest prose writers of all time. Jeremy Dyson is one of the UK's most successful screenwriters and, with Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith, makes up the phenomenally popular The League of Gentlemen. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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4.0 out of 5 stars This Book is NOT Written in the First Person......, July 3 2004
By B. M. White (Eastlake, oh United States) - See all my reviews
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.....despite what certain illustrious reviews may tell you. It makes you wonder if they even actually read the book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars An early writing., April 22 2004
By Jan Dierckx (Belgium, Turnhout) - See all my reviews
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'The Double' along with other novels like 'Poor Folk' is from the early period of his writership. The novel is influenced by Gogol and this explains the Fantasy elements of 'The Double' The novel is not so flamboyant like the works he wrote later like 'The Idiot' or 'Crime and Punishment', but if you are interested in the novels of the young Dostoyevsky, 'The Double' is strongly recommended.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Double - Significant, short work of early Dostoyevsky, Jan 30 2004
By Matthew M. Yau "Voracious reader" (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews
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Golyadkin is a government clerk who, decreed by fate, encounters a man who not only resembles him exactly but is also his namesake. Golyadkin's own musings and foreshadowing along with his curious actions all afford hints and glimpses of a psychological realism that persists throughout the novel. On a stormy night in which Golyadkin tried to regain his composure after the hails of slights had descended him at a private party of the high society, he met his double. The double (who was subsequently being referred as the Golyadkin junior and the adversary), with bold effrontery, went out his own way to show Golyadkin impudence, insulted Golyadkin, and purloined Golyadkin's papers in order to win approbation of the double's superiors at work.

Like "Notes From Underground", "The Double" is a close examination of human consciousness, through an unreliable narrator. I repeatedly raise the question whether this imposture really happens? Does the Golyadkin junior (the double) really exist in cold fact? What really happens at the end? Perhaps the real horror of Golyadkin senior (whom Dostoyevsky eventually refers him as our hero) is that he unconsciously knows his double simply being the side of his own nature that he disapproves, despises and fears? Regardless of the existence of the double, the imposter has simply trampled Golyadkin in the mire, perfidiously intruded him, and showed clearly that the senior and also the genuine Golyadkin is not genuine at all but a counterfeit, and that Golyadkin junior himself is the real one. The book is a portrait of the darker side of despicable personality that magnifies to the full actuality.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A solid, short Dostoyevsky
This short Dostoyevsky novel, his second published work, is a classic of psychological realism and also paved the way for some of his later work. Read more
Published on Sep 21 2003 by VoodooLord7

4.0 out of 5 stars a bit different
this is a little bit different from anything else i have written by the author. it is kind of surreal. a man meets his double. Read more
Published on April 4 2003 by jan erik storebø

3.0 out of 5 stars Doublemint twins in Dostoyevsky's world
Dostoyevsky has always been one to over describe (which is a positive attribute) but, this particular book seemed to be low in that area and lacked. Read more
Published on April 21 2002 by Catherine M. Dorkin

5.0 out of 5 stars Hoisted like a Drunken Hammock
Mr Golyadkin is something of an odd fish. He hires a carriage to take himself to a party he has not been invited to, only to retreat from an attack of nerves before he is even... Read more
Published on Feb 5 2002 by peter wild

4.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious and haunting early Dostoevsky.
Dostoevsky's second novel comes pretty late in the day of the first European doppelganger/double cycle. Read more
Published on Feb 9 2001 by darragh o'donoghue

5.0 out of 5 stars Achieved anxiety
In The Double, the hero Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin is a rather insecure and troubled mid-level bureaucrat. Read more
Published on May 2 2000 by Knut Oyangen

4.0 out of 5 stars Paranoia before the USSR
This being Dostoevskys second book doesnt really achieve the peak use of language he would later attain. Read more
Published on Oct 18 1999 by George Schaefer

1.0 out of 5 stars Interesting only from a historical standpoint
I can see two ways this book could be called interesting. One way is for people who like books that deal with paranoia and insanity. Read more
Published on Feb 22 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars A novel way ahead of its time
The Double was Dostoyevskys second book. The author thought it was his greatest work yet, but to the literary critics, who considered it weird and insane, it was a... Read more
Published on Jan 31 1999

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