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Book 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, victimizationContinue
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- English Books
- Paperback 144 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0486295729
- ISBN-13: 9780486295725
- Publisher: Dover Publications
- Pub date: Mar 12, 1997
- Dimensions: 1290 mm x 1161 mm x 65 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover
- In other languages: other languages
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Partner
I read this work because my favorite movie of all time, Partner (an Italian movie made in the sixties with Pierre Clementi), was inspired by Dostoevski's The Double. I thought "OK, let's have a look." But the translation was so tedious, the whole story was the same sort of madness over and over agai ... (continue)
I read this work because my favorite movie of all time, Partner (an Italian movie made in the sixties with Pierre Clementi), was inspired by Dostoevski's The Double. I thought "OK, let's have a look." But the translation was so tedious, the whole story was the same sort of madness over and over again mimicking a paranoid schizophrenic nightmare. The first half was interesting but during the second half the whole thing had long been overdue to end.
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