The Double

7 hrs. 50 min.

Classics

Language Russian

Author Fyodor Dostoevsky

Narrator Alexander Dunin

Description

A demonic Petersburg, a mysterious double, and astonishing, enigmatic events in F.M. Dostoevsky’s novella “The Double.” The novella was first published in the journal “Otechestvennye Zapiski” with the subtitle “The Adventures of Mr. Golyadkin.” The main character’s mental disorder is the consequence of social problems in a society where “the scheme of human values is replaced by a table of ranks. All the officials look alike, and their significance is determined not internally, by their dignity, but externally, by their position, office, and job. Relations between people are mechanized, and people themselves are turned into things.”