The Double by Fyodor Dostoevsky 🇷🇺(Early, Absurd Existentialism) 

Loved it, after finishing in it, I felt like I was waking up from a strange dream. Reminded me a bit of Fight Club and one of the songs from that movie's soundtrack, "Where Is My Mind" by the Pixies and also Stone Temple Pilot's "Half the Man I Used to Be" (not on soundtrack).

There’s a part where he drops a bottle of medicine from his pocket and it breaks on the floor.

My English quiet bad so... Я прочитал эту книгу в конце апреля и она меня просто поразила. Я не знал, что классическая литература может быть настолько интересной. И более того, я обнаружил, что местами похож на Голядкина и это меня ужаснуло. Эта книга помогла мне переосмыслить многие аспекты своего характера

Thanks for this analysis. I just started The Double as an audiobook and wanted to get a feel for what to expect in terms of style and substance. You deserve so many more views and likes. 👍🏻

Great video and analysis! Thank you for this, it really helped me

It sounds like The Double is foreshadowing Kafka. I also have a volume with The Double and The Gambler (mine is translated by Pevear and Volokhonsky). I have just started the Gambler.

Dostoevsky is such a great writer. I haven’t read the Double. Crime and Punishment is my favorite so far but haven’t read Brothers Karamozov. I need to read more by Gogol.

Fascinating! I was recently reading a biography of Sylvia Plath and learned that Plath wrote her senior dissertation on this book. I have never read Dostoevsky, but I'd be interested in reading this once I've read one of his 'masterpieces'. Thanks for the video! :)

William Wilson seems like it would be a great comparison. There were a lot of comparisons I had with that and Fight Club/The Drawing of the Three a while back. I hope to read this one day!

As a man who has read C and P, Gambler and an unpleasant predicment its always that last sentance that leaves you with a bunch of space to think. For an example what does he mean when he says he had foresaw that a long time ago; that would be the question number one. Secondly are the letters, if they ever existed really, and the last one that is so unreal to me.What are the chances that the woman who is taken (and at the begining of the novel is the main reason he is being kicked out of party) is sending him some kind of love letter? I personaly think that it’s just his imagination. The book certainly leaves you with many questions and really tortures about it.

Woke up from a long sleep. He yawned, stretched, and at last opened his eyes completely. For two minutes, however, he lay in his bed without moving, as though he were not yet quite certain whether he were awake or still asleep, whether all that was going on around him were real and actual, or the continuation of his confused dreams.

I loved The Double. It got an enjoyable film adaption a few years ago, from the British director Richard Ayoade. Another couple of good doppelganger stories: Gualta by Javier Marias from his collection While the Women are Sleeping, and Giovanni Papini's wonderful Two Faces in a Well, which you can read online, there's a link under the Stories section of his Wiki page.

When I was about 12 I had a series of dreams over the course of 3 nights which led me to consciously formulate the question: "Which is reality, the one I have just come from (dreaming) or the one that I am waking into (waking)? Anybody that is seriously interested in this question would do well to investigate what Steiner calls the Ahrimanic double. Happy hunting!

'Demons' 'The Possessed' 'The Devils' my favorite book by F. Dostoevsky....lead directly to works by, Daniil Kharms....who was consumed by 'The Devils' of 20th Century...

I just finished the novel. I didn't fully understand whether the events that happened were real or not. if everything was real, then how can Mr. Golyadkin come home from the party and see the other Golyadkin in his room? Or why no one talks about what happened at the party? I don't think I read the book carefully, I need to read it again.

Yeah, this is to much of a summary. The doctor's visit needs further elaboration...