Author : Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Publisher : Golgotha Press
ISBN 13 : 1610427203
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (14 download)
Book Synopsis The Double: A Petersburg Poem (Annotated with a Biography about the Life and Times of Fyodor Dostoyevsky) by : Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Download or read book The Double: A Petersburg Poem (Annotated with a Biography about the Life and Times of Fyodor Dostoyevsky) written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and published by Golgotha Press. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Double: A Petersburg Poem is a novella written by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The novella was first published in 1846. The Double deals with the internal psychological struggle of its main character, Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin. The Double is the most Gogolesque of Dostoevsky's works; its subtitle "A Petersburg Poem" echoes that of Gogol's Dead Souls. Vladimir Nabokov called it a parody of "The Overcoat". The story is told in great detail with a style intensely saturated by phonetic and rhythmical expressiveness. The novella centers on a government clerk who goes mad, obsessed by the idea that a fellow clerk has usurped his identity. D.S. Mirsky characterized the story as a "painful, almost intolerable reading". With a biography about the life and times of Fyodor Dostoyevsky.