Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky 
The Double 

First published in 1846, ‘The Double’ (
AKA The Double: A Petersburg Poem) is a novella and masterpiece written by the Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky. 



‘The Double’ tells the tragic but comic tale of the polite and well-established titular councilor Yakov Petrovitch Golyadkin. His problems begin when his exact double enters his life and begins to take over. Golyadkin turns to his colleagues for help, but no matter whom he talks to, he increasingly feels surrounded by enemies…