Book Details
Format
Paperback
Pages
148
Language
English
Published
May 16, 2019
Publisher
Independently published
ISBN-10
1098891155
ISBN-13
9781098891152
Description
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.