num_pages: 212
description: 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 reminds us of the work of Kafka or Sartre -- Sartre's 'Nausea' particularly. The novel leaves us with a feeling as though we had partaken of too much vodka: it has a drunken quality to it, and it is a drunken quality it pleases us to share.
language: English
title: The Double
titlecomplete: The Double
characters: Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin
genres: Classics, Philosophy, Short Stories, Psychology, Russia, Novels, Russian Literature, Literature, 19th Century, Fiction
ratings_count: 30290
places: Saint-Pétersbourg
awards: awardedAt: 1388563200000
name: Read Russia Prize
category: Classic Russian Literature for Alejandro Ariel González
publisher: Borgo Press