Upon its release, most critics set out to annihilate the story, a reactionary doppelganger effect in and of itself in the sense that it ruined the fame and positivity that came with Poor Folk, Dostoyevsky’s debut. The Double has had a surprisingly diverse set of reactions since its creation. Unlike Golyadkin, his double is beaming with confidence and charm and is in every other way his exact opposite which eventually leads to trouble for Golyadkin when the doppelganger sets out to ruin him. Titled The Double, the novella follows a socially awkward government clerk named Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin – amusingly called “our hero” by the narrator – when a doppelganger enters his life. In 1846 a 25-year old Dostoyevsky published his second novel. “The door from the next room suddenly opened with a timid, quiet creak, as if thus announcing the entrance of a very insignificant person…”
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