The Double
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A great book. First published AD 1846, written in Russian
The Double: A Petersburg Poem is the second novel written by Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published on 30 January 1846 in the Otechestvennye zapiski. It was subsequently revised and republished by Dostoevsky in 1866.
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Where it is set
- Saint Petersburg
Russia
In Saint Petersburg, Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin works as a titular councillor (rank 9 in the Table of Ranks established by Peter the Great), a low-level bureaucrat struggling to succeed. Source: Wikipedia, reviewed
What it draws on
Dead SoulsGreat book
Nikolai Gogol, AD 1842
Dostoevsky's early novella is his most Gogolian work: a timid Petersburg clerk, a comedy that turns into nightmare, and a subtitle, 'A Petersburg Poem', that echoes Gogol's calling Dead Souls a poem.
Source: Wikipedia, The Double (Dostoevsky novel)
“The Double is the most Gogolesque of Dostoevsky's works; its subtitle "A Petersburg Poem" echoes that of Gogol's Dead Souls.” Read it there
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