The Double: A Petersburg Poem
About the eBook
"The Double" centres 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 'doppelgänger', known throughout the world in various guises such as the fetch.
Product Details
Publisher: Otbebookpublishing
Genre: Belletristik & Literatur
Language: English
Size: 149 Pages
Filesize: 282.9 KB
ISBN: 9783956762826
Published: Feb. 25, 2015