Golyadkin’s double
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Golyadkin’s double is the uncanny doppelgänger of the protagonist in Dostoevsky’s novella "The Double," embodying his psychological turmoil and fractured identity.
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
doppelgänger
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double ⓘ fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ symbolic figure ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
The Double
NERFINISHED
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The Double: A Petersburg Poem NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInSetting | Saint Petersburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
alienation
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bureaucracy ⓘ identity crisis ⓘ madness ⓘ self-destruction ⓘ social anxiety ⓘ split personality ⓘ |
| basedOn | Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
charming
ⓘ
manipulative ⓘ socially adept ⓘ |
| contrastsWith |
Yakov Golyadkin’s awkwardness
ⓘ
Yakov Golyadkin’s timidity ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Russian Empire ⓘ |
| createdBy | Fyodor Dostoevsky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1846 ⓘ |
| genreContext |
Russian literature
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fantastic literature ⓘ psychological fiction ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Romantic doppelgänger tradition ⓘ |
| interpretation |
manifestation of schizophrenia
ⓘ
projection of Golyadkin’s psyche ⓘ symbol of social otherness ⓘ |
| isDoubleOf | Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| laterInfluenceOn | depictions of doubles in modernist literature ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 19th-century Russian literature ⓘ |
| medium | novella ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
agent of social humiliation
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embodiment of fractured identity ⓘ embodiment of psychological turmoil ⓘ |
| ontologicalStatusInWork | ambiguous ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Russian ⓘ |
| relationshipToProtagonist |
mirror image
ⓘ
rival ⓘ usurper of social position ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
antagonist
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foil to Yakov Golyadkin ⓘ |
| workAuthorNationality | Russian ⓘ |
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