Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Double

Title: The Double Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky Format: Paperback Language: English Pages: 144 Publisher: Dover Publications, 858153600 ISBN: 0486295729 Format: PDF / Kindle / ePub Size: 5.9 MB Download: allowed

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While his literary reputation rests mainly on such celebrated novels as Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and The Idiot, Dostoyevsky also wrote much superb short fiction. The Double is one of the finest of his shorter works. It appeared in 1846 (his second published work) and is by far the most significant of his early stories, not least for its successful, straight-faced treatment of a hallucinatory theme.

In The Double, the protagonist, Golyadkin senior, is persecuted by his double, Golyadkin junior, who resembles him closely in almost every detail. The latter abuses the former with mounting scorn and brutality as the tale proceeds toward its frightening denouement. Characteristic Dostoyevskyan themes of helplessness, victimization, and scandal are beautifully handled here with an artistry that qualifies the story as a small masterpiece.

Students of literature, admirers of Dostoyevsky, and general readers will all be delighted to have this classic work available in this inexpensive, high-quality edition.

Insightful reviews

Anna Rohleder: Dostoevsky is a master; never predictable yet always wonderful. What more can I say? Reading him is both a delight and spoils you for lesser entertainments, ie most other books or movies.

What is most interesting about this book to me is its exploration of the shadow in all of its dimensions.

Maria Pallozzi: Diciamo che l'inizio prometteva bene, ho letto molto velocemente le prime cento pagine per sapere cosa avrebbe passato il povero protagonista, il tema dello sdoppiamento della personalità in due figure distinte e coesistenti mi interessa in maniera particolare, così come la contrapposizione tra bene e male. Ebbene il signor Goljadkin un giorno si reca da un medico tedesco e riceve da lui un imperativo: deve passare più tempo in società, o la solitudine lo distruggerà psicologicamente. Ma il nostro eroe è una personcina quanto mai morigerata, non ama i compromessi, né le adulazioni, cosa potrebbe ricavarci di buono nei salotti di Pietroburgo?

Una notte uscendo di casa fa un incontro bizzarro: vede un altro se stesso passargli accanto. Il fatto lo lascia di stucco: la situazione precipita quando se lo ritrova a lavoro. Non solo portano lo stesso nome, hanno lo stesso aspetto, vengono dalla stessa città. In breve il Goljadkin-junior mostrandosi servizievole e amabile con tutti riesce a tessere una ragnatela mortale attorno al protagonista, manovra tutti i personaggi del romanzo portandoli a detestare il nostro eroe e a compatirlo per l'amore ch'egli prova per la figlia del suo superiore. Ripudiato dal suo servo, dai suoi colleghi, deriso da tutti, il protagonista cerca di difendersi e di screditare il suo omonimo.

Ma alla fine Goljadkin junior a farla franca.

Nel finale si scopre che questi era un'astrazione della mente del protagonista, che viene attirato in una festa che si rivela essere una messa in scena per affidarlo al suo medico curante, il quale lo condurrà in una casa di cura.

Interessante pensare che Goljadkin-junior rappresenta tutto ciò che il protagonista detesta nel comportamento in società. Probabilmente egli ne è disgustato e attratto, perchè tutti desiderano prima o poi saper trattare con la gente e sentirsi accettati. Ma l'orgoglio e i valori che gli hanno inculcato lo bloccano, è una persona piuttosto inquadrata.

Comunque, è abbastanza confusionaria la narrazione, per questo son rimasta un po' delusa, anche se l'argomento mi ha molto interessato.

t?-sk?: Chiar dac? tu m? vei uita,

Eu nu te voi uita pe tine; Nicicând orice s-ar întâmpla, Nu m? uita nici tu pe mine!

Dagny: i may in basic terms provide this one 3 stars simply because i discovered it a coloration too lengthy with an excessive amount of repetition. This virtually prompted me to become bored and at one element I dreaded picking out the booklet as much as proceed reading. The (seemingly) funny bits at first have been enjoyable studying after which the secret of what used to be quite happening stored me facing the midway point. finally notwithstanding all of it grew to become an excessive amount of for me because it went on and on. It used to be stored later as I breathlessly raced to the top to determine the reality of those unusual and bizarre occurrences.

Benjamin: via some distance some of the most extraordinary brief tales i've got ever read.

based on the introduction, Dostoevsky purposefully leaves the boundary among fable and truth undetermined. the viewpoint is often from the most character's brain and prefer our personal minds, his is jumbled, non-linear, and entire of thoughts. This makes the tale difficult to stick to and makes it possible for much a enjoyable guessing even if the most personality is having a psychological breakdown or that the realm has thrown him fairly a curve ball while a guy arrives that appears similar to him and has an analogous name. for a very long time it seems like "Fight Club" and but there's by no means that second of readability in case you detect that Ed Norton has been imagining Brad Pitt the entire time. Dostoevsky succeeds like he did in his later book, "Crime and Punishment," in taking the reader instantly into the most character's thoughts, feelings and interactions. i used to be stuck up within the tale early on and felt every little thing that the nature felt. bankruptcy VII the place the double stocks his existence tale with the most personality and the ultimate bankruptcy are of the easiest sections of the booklet and actually spotlight the superb skill of Dostoevsky to weave a narrative that's enticing and endearing. just a masterful writer might take the tale on a fantastical trip that begins from the heart-wrenching bonds of brotherhood to the foul depths of a damaged mind.The variety selected by means of Dostoevsky could permit entry into the intimate ideas of 1 main, however it makes interpreting tough. there have been a couple of sections the place I needed to return and browse it back to be transparent on what was once occurring and who was once concerned with the conversation. Dostoevsky repeats complete personality names a number of occasions in a single sentence, which turns into a piece demanding close to the tip of the book. the most personality is additionally a babbling fool (in truth he states so a number of times) and converses as if he's conversing immediately from his mind without pauses to assemble his thoughts. This selection through Dostoevsky works in lots of areas within the book, but in addition starts off to grate close to the end. Overall, a superb learn and because the

introductions states, "The awesome originality of "The Double" handed the critics by." i think that with no this serious failure, Dostoevsky do not have been exiled to Siberia and will by no means have written "Crime and Punishment," which might were a real tragedy.

Florencia: during the bureaucratic ocean of papers, there lies Josef K., uninterested in unanswered arguments.Behind an unapologetic desk, Bartleby sits in silence, who prefer nothing.As a timid door opens, Bashmachkin leaves the smothering surroundings of the office, able to meet with the others. ready to omit the bland morning espresso and the lads attempting to make their manner via scheme and flattery, and get well the humanity as soon as lost. The sunlight is setting. a gradual breeze with a smell of independence caresses their faces.

Golyadkin, our protagonist, is watching for them.The international of the oppressed rests in Dostoyevsky's prose. the fundamental analyst of the human nature. Briefly, The Double is set Mr. Golyadkin and his doppelgänger, Mr. Golyadkin Jr., somebody who has been born below a demanding snowstorm.This novella has many parts that may be present in Gogol's work. His effect on Dostoyevsky is well-known. However, this author handled those self same subject matters with an cutting edge variety that lines transparent limits. He even did that along with his personal work. For me, this was once not anything just like the novels i've got learn before.

common issues like oppression, sorrow, alienation, paintings and loneliness are continually handled from assorted angles and unique methods of execution. Originality perceived by means of the brain of Sábato: all of us are the sum of what now we have read. subject matters don't change; the way in which we exhibit ourselves on them, might. whilst I learn The Brothers Karamazov, my eyes meditated Dostoyevsky's genius, notice by means of word. My replica is all written. I underlined countless numbers of sentences that attempted to enlighten the difficult direction towards the mind. A humble try out of understanding. However, the days I underlined whatever at the Double used to be for the most goal of maintaining with the story. Actions.

Names. i didn't locate many memorable reflections that left me at awe. those i discovered have been on the beginning, mostly. So, what then? It used to be all inside the interpretation. the advance of facts, the tale itself used to be what left me looking at an invisible point, drawing within the air, puzzling over approximately my very own lifestyles and the futility of things. The fragility of 1 of the main necessary issues we own. Our mind. a suite of cognitive faculties. A place. A process. Sanity.His place at that second was once just like the place of a guy status over a frightful precipice, while the earth breaks away less than him, is rocking, shifting, sways for a final time, and falls, drawing him into the abyss, and in the meantime the unlucky guy has neither the energy nor the firmness of spirit to leap back, to take his eyes from the yawning chasm; the abyss attracts him, and he ultimately leaps into it himself, himself hastening the instant of his personal perdition. (39)We can't personal our mind. less than convinced circumstances—sad, nerve wracking, shameful circumstances—, it reacts because it pleases. Or the way it can. it's the major resource of who we're and yet, a trivial truth has the ability to damage it. A unmarried act. An accumulation of irritating acts. a lifetime of unlucky events. A pile of obedient frustrations. The meek silence of unwanted, inevitable solitude. the will of luck in a suffocating atmosphere with people who have already been selected over you. the quest of id in an alienated world. don't be by myself too much.These are only the various observations that emerge from The Double, a real murals that portrays a man's mental struggle, with a brushstroke of unforgiving reality. we're put inside of Golyadkin's head. we're privileged spectators of his mind. We see it work. We see it weep. We see it shocked, not able to move.

We shout, simply because we all know what to do (even notwithstanding we'd react a similar

Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) means if we have been in his shoes, you by no means know). A privilege that thrills and frightens.There is way emotion in Dostoyevsky's descriptive and wary writing. So much, i will not undergo it.Sep 29, 15* Note: Months ago, I watched a 2013 movie starring Jesse Eisenberg, in keeping with this novella. Artistically exquisite. preserve it in mind!** additionally on my blog.

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