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Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World is a 2023 memoir and political analysis by Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker Naomi Klein. In it, Klein examines the current climate of political polarization and conspiracy thinking , by contrasting Klein's worldview with that of Naomi Wolf , with whom Klein is often confused.
The book opens on a scene where Mirage, a Hunter (individuals who specialize as assassins, bodyguards and spies), is hiding and preparing to strike three men who mistake her for a witch at first then for a Cousin (witch's assistant). Mirage, being a great Hunter trained from Silverfire, gets her mark and almost kills the three men.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, How They Met Themselves, watercolour, 1864. A doppelgänger [a] (/ ˈ d ɒ p əl ɡ ɛ ŋ ər,-ɡ æ ŋ-/ DOP-əl-gheng-ər, -gang-), sometimes spelled doppelgaenger or doppelganger, is a ghostly double of a living person, especially one that haunts its own fleshly counterpart.
The Gothic double is a literary motif which refers to the divided personality of a character. Closely linked to the Doppelgänger, which first appeared in the 1796 novel Siebenkäs by Johann Paul Richter, the double figure emerged in Gothic literature in the late 18th century due to a resurgence of interest in mythology and folklore which explored notions of duality, such as the fetch in Irish ...
Doppelganger (Brennan novel), a 2006 fantasy novel by Marie Brennan; The Doppelganger: Literature's Philosophy, 2010 book by Dimitris Vardoulakis; Doppelganger, a 2008 novel by Pete Hautman; Doppelganger, a 2010 novel by Jenny Valentine; The Doppelganger, a 1936 novel by Hammond Innes; Doppelganger, a 2023 non-fiction book by Naomi Klein
The stabbing scene in Poe's story is the one moment that is directly paralleled in the film. Peter de Rome said he was inspired to make this film when he saw a portrait of Poe and realized that Poe was, essentially, visually his own doppelganger. In 1979, Ediciones de la Urraca in Argentina published a comic adaptation in El Péndulo #2 ...
The Doppelganger: Literature's Philosophy is a 2010 book by Dimitris Vardoulakis in which the author examines the relationship between literature and philosophy. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] References
A leading British politician chooses to swap places with his cousin, a journalist who is his doppelganger. This leads to a dilemma for his wife, who falls in love with the double. It was the third most popular book on the New York Times bestselling list that year, and continued as a bestseller in 1905. [1]