The Double

7 hrs. 10 min.

Classics

Language Russian

Author Fyodor Dostoevsky

Narrator Sergey Kilesso

Description

"The Double" is a story about how, in one person, the light and dark sides of character can combine in a truly striking way. Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin, an entirely unremarkable titular councillor who draws from colleagues and acquaintances nothing but condescending smiles, suddenly begins to behave strangely: he speaks sharply, dresses differently, and insists on his own opinion. Critics often called this work “a description of a typical mental disorder.” But the author is not so much telling about an illness as about what drives a timid, unnoticed official toward madness.