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The Double by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, Fiction, Classics
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Overview
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. (Jacketless library hardcover.)
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- ISBN-13: 9781592248957
- ISBN-10: 1592248950
- Publisher: Borgo Press
- Publish Date: August 2002
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.63 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
- Page Count: 212
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