# The Double : New Translation

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- Authors: [Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://www.bookquiver.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky)
- Publisher: Alma Classics
- ISBN: 978-18-4749-603-4
- Pages: 209
- Published: 2016-08-25
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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 persecuted, Golyadkin finds his social, romantic and professional life unravelling, in a spiral that leads to a catastrophic denouement. The Double, Dostoevsky's second published work of fiction, which foreshadows in its themes many of his mature novels, is the surreal and hallucinatory tale of an unfortunate anti-hero, at once chilling in its depiction of the dark sides of human nature and exuberantly comical.