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Fyodor Dostoyevskys The Double (1846) is a darkly satirical novella about Yakov Golyadkin, a timid civil servant in St. Petersburg whose life spirals into paranoia when he encounters a man identical to himself. This double, more confident and socially adept, gradually usurps Golyadkins position at work and among acquaintances, leaving the original increasingly humiliated and unstable. As reality and delusion blur, Golyadkins desperate attempts to assert himself collapse into madness, and he is ultimately taken away to an asylum. The work explores themes of fractured identity, alienation, and the fragile boundary between sanity and obsession, foreshadowing Dostoyevskys later psychological masterpieces.
