https://blog.georgefabish.com/tags/psychological_fiction/ Recent content in Psychological_fiction on George's Blog Hugo en-US Mon, 02 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.georgefabish.com/reviews/the-double/ Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:30:46 -0500 https://blog.georgefabish.com/reviews/the-double/ <p>The Double is Dostoyevsky&rsquo;s second published work and is a definite precursor to much of his later work. Following the life of a low-level bureaucrat named Golyadkin for a couple chaotic days. Golyadkin is a weak and flakey person with crippling anxiety and bordering on psychotic. After attending a party and committing some embarrassing party fouls he is thrown out into the snowy night in St. Petersburg. It is in this state that Golyadkin literally bumps into his double a person that looks just like him and even shares his name. The rest of the book follows the relationship of these two characters as the double is the inverse of the real Golyadkin and has everything the original lacks. This book was also adapted into a movie with Jesse Eisenburg who is a great match for this character. The style is very surreal and also satirical it is much different from anything else I&rsquo;ve read from Dostoyevsky. It was also the worst book I&rsquo;ve read from him, in fact I think he says it best</p>