The novel depicts how Golyadkin was crushed by bureaucracy, with the anxieties of success worked terribly upon his already overwrought nerves. He was therefore taken to a mental asylum. This had taken a new menacing shape, and he saw his life unravelling, in a spiral that led to a psychotic break. was more and more overcome by dismay and confusion, began to see more and more replicas of himself. lacks, thus he earned respect and love of colleagues. He has all the qualities that Golyadkin Sr. is exceptionally charming, audacious, confident and, above all, socially cheerful. Golyadkin and his double became friends initially, but their relationship increasingly deteriorated as Golyadkin Jr. On the way home, he bumps into his exact double, a man with whom he shares a physical resemblance, Golyadkin Jr.––as called by Dostoevsky. Though uninvited and not used for crowds, he attends the birthday party of his manager’s daughter, Klara Olsufyevna, but he leaves the party in acrimonious circumstances after a series of faux pas. In fear for his sanity, he tries to join society of every sort, feeling a kind of thirst for company. Golyadkin was prescribed “cheerful company” as a remedy for his dangerously antisocial behaviour.

The story revolves around Golyadkin’s sanity. It explores hallucinations and sanity themes in the early 19th century, Saint Petersburg, through the fairly old idea of the double. Like Notes from Underground, this is a masterly tragi-comic study of human consciousness.Published in 1846, Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Double is a tragic tale of an unfortunate, well-established, and humble titular councillor, Yakov Petrovitch Golyadkin. Read more man who looks exactly like him - his double perhaps, or possibly the darker side of his own personality. The seemingly ordinary world of St Petersburg takes on a nightmarish quality in The Double when a government clerk encounters a. With bitter irony, he describes his refusal to become a worker in the 'anthill' and his gradual withdrawal from society.

'That sense of the meaninglessness of existence that runs through much of twentieth-century writing - from Conrad and Kafka, to Beckett and beyond - starts in Dostoyevsky's work' Malcolm Bradbury Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of his own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground tells the story of his tortured life. It describes his refusal to become a worker in the 'anthill' of society and his gradual withdrawal to an existence 'underground'. Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of the author's own insignificance, this book tells the story of his tortured life. Description for Notes from Underground and the Double Paperback.

The double by fyodor dostoevsky