Dostoevsky the double pdf series#

Looking forwards, it is often read as a psychosocial version of his later ethical-psychological works. Looking backwards, it is viewed as Dostoevsky's innovation on Gogol. The Double has been interpreted in a number of ways. This immediate relationship is the obvious manifestation of Dostoevsky's entry into the deeper tradition of German Romanticism, particularly the writings of E. Bem called The Double 'a unique literary rebuttal' to Gogol's story ' The Nose'. One contemporary critic, Konstantin Aksakov, remarked that 'Dostoevsky alters and wholly repeats GogolвЂ™s phrases.' Most scholars, however, recognise The Double as DostoevskyвЂ™s response to or innovation on GogolвЂ™s work. Many others have emphasised the relationship between The Double and other of Gogol's Petersburg Tales. Vladimir Nabokov called it a parody of ' The Overcoat'. The Double is the most Gogolesque of Dostoevsky's works its subtitle 'A Petersburg Poem' echoes that of Gogol's Dead Souls. begins to see many replicas of himself, has a psychotic break, and is dragged off to an asylum by Doctor Rutenspitz. lacks, he is very well-liked among the office colleagues. has all the charm, unctuousness and social skills that Golyadkin Sr. proceeds to attempt to take over Sr.'s life, and they become bitter enemies. The following two thirds of the novel then deals with their evolving relationship.ДЄt first, Golyadkin and his double are friends, but Golyadkin Jr. On his way home through a snowstorm, he encounters a man who looks exactly like him, his double.

Dostoevsky the double pdf series#

He was uninvited, and a series of faux pas lead to his expulsion from the party. He proceeds to a birthday party for Klara Olsufyevna, the daughter of his office manager.

Golyadkin resolves to try this, and leaves the office. He prescribes 'cheerful company' as the remedy. Golyadkin has a formative discussion with his Doctor Rutenspitz, who fears for his sanity and tells him that his behaviour is dangerously antisocial. ), a low-level bureaucrat struggling to succeed. In Saint Petersburg, Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin works as a titular councillor (rank 9 in the Table of Ranks established by Peter the Great.