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La historia va mucho m s all de lo que resumen las anteriores l neas, pues Dostoievski se anticipa unos cuantos a os a la novela psicol gica para presentarnos un personaje que ve desdoblada su personalidad ante la escisi n de sus deseos personales, al m s puro estilo Kafka... Read Full Overview

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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... Read Full Overview

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 original. As he is increasingly... Read Full Overview

Se funden en esta novela el realismo psicol gico y las penumbras fant sticas de los cuentos del poeta alem n E.T.A. Hoffmann. Su publicaci n fue un fracaso. La cr tica se vio irritada y desorientada por el argumento de la obra. La fama de nuevo genio que Dostoyevski se hab a... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

El doble es la segunda novela escrita por Fi dor Dostoievski. Describe la vida de un funcionario del Estado ruso, Yakov Petrovich Goliadkin, quien, al ser rechazado en una comida que ofrec a su jefe por el cumplea os de su hija, su personalidad se parte y enfrenta una despiadada... Read Full Overview

There is a great doppelganger tradition in literature, but there is nothing is quite like Fyodor Dostoevsky's _The Double_. There is a modern quality in this Russian nightmare -- where much of Dostoevsky shares qualities with Dickens and Tolstoy, The Double... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

In an age before psychology was a modern scientific field, Fyodor Dostoyevsky (November 11, 1821 - February 9, 1881) was a Russian writer of realist fiction and essays that explored the depths of the human psyche. Known for acclaimed novels Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and... Read Full Overview

Der Doppelg?nger wurde in der gesamten Menschheitsgeschichte als bedeutendes Werk angesehen, und um sicherzustellen, dass dieses Werk niemals verloren geht, haben wir Schritte unternommen, um seine Erhaltung zu gew?hrleisten, indem wir dieses Buch in einem zeitgem? en Format... Read Full Overview

Una noche, Goliadkin es expulsado de una cena en casa de su jefe a la que supuestamente hab a sido invitado y este hecho le produce una profunda conmoci n. Al d a siguiente se topa por la calle con un individuo completamente id ntico a l: el otro Se or Goliadkin. Aunque f sicamente... Read Full Overview

The Double is a novella written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was first published on January 30, 1846 in the Fatherland Notes. It was subsequently revised and republished by Dostoevsky in 1866. The Double centers on a government clerk who goes mad. It deals with the internal psychological... Read Full Overview

In an age before psychology was a modern scientific field, Fyodor Dostoyevsky (November 11, 1821 - February 9, 1881) was a Russian writer of realist fiction and essays that explored the depths of the human psyche. Known for acclaimed novels Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and... Read Full Overview

Dans ce roman, le narrateur d peint un fonctionnaire p tersbourgeois (Goliadkine) dont la vie est boulevers e par l'apparition soudaine d'un double de lui-m me. Celui-ci tente de d truire la r putation de Goliadkine et clame sa position la fois dans sa vie publique dans la... Read Full Overview