The Double

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.