num_pages: 254
description: Most significant of the Russian novelist's early stories (1846) offers a straight-faced treatment of a hallucinatory theme. Golyadkin senior is a powerless target of persecution by Golyadkin junior, his double in almost every respect. Familiar Dostoyevskan themes of helplessness, victimization, scandal  beautifully handled in this small masterpiece.
language: English
title: Double
titlecomplete: Double
characters: Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin
genres: Russian Literature, Literature, Novels, Philosophy, Short Stories, Russia, 19th Century, Classics, Fiction, Psychology
ratings_count: 30322
places: Saint-Pétersbourg
awards: awardedAt: 1388563200000
name: Read Russia Prize
category: Classic Russian Literature for Alejandro Ariel González
publisher: Indiana Univ Pr