Everyman's Library Classics Series: The Double and The Gambler : Introduction by Richard Pevear (Hardcover)

from KromesTomes

Two novels in one ... The Double was more of an interesting experiment, The Gambler a straight-ahead story.

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Read the Double. For Dostoevsky's 2nd novel (published two weeks after his first, so practically tied for first, as it were), this is a complex treatment of a relatively unknown phenomenon in the 1840s: schizophrenia. I'm not surprised that those on the cutting edge of psychology decades later sa...

from mattviews

Golyadkin is a government clerk who, decreed by fate, encounters a man who not only resembles him exactly but is also his namesake. Golyadkin's own musings and foreshadowing along with his curious actions all afford hints and glimpses of a psychological realism that persists throughout the novel....

from icattub

Read the Double. For Dostoevsky's 2nd novel (published two weeks after his first, so practically tied for first, as it were), this is a complex treatment of a relatively unknown phenomenon in the 1840s: schizophrenia. I'm not surprised that those on the cutting edge of psychology decades later sa...

from icattub

Read the Double. For Dostoevsky's 2nd novel (published two weeks after his first, so practically tied for first, as it were), this is a complex treatment of a relatively unknown phenomenon in the 1840s: schizophrenia. I'm not surprised that those on the cutting edge of psychology decades later sa...