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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 , for whom Klein is often confused.
Doppelganger is a high fantasy novel written by Marie Brennan published in 2006. [1] It chronicles the adventures of Miryo, a witch , and Mirage, her doppelgänger . Premise
Clive Barker's story "Human Remains" in his Books of Blood is a doppelgänger tale, and the doppelgänger motif is a staple of Gothic fiction. In Vladimir Nabokov 's 1936 novel Despair , the narrator and protagonist, Hermann Karlovich, meets a homeless man in Prague, who he believes is his doppelgänger.
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 story was adapted into a British film, The Double, released in 2013, starring Jesse Eisenberg. [ 15 ] A one-hour radio adaptation by Jonathan Holloway and directed by Gemma Jenkins, changing the time period from Tsarist Russia to "a steampunk version of 19th-century St. Petersburg", [ 16 ] was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 as part of their ...
Literary critic Edward W. Said concurs with Gueard’s analysis of “The Secret Sharer” that “Conrad’s basic theme is the conflict between the mariner [captain-narrator] and the outlaw [Leggatt]; between the man who seeks to establish control by finding his place among the hard, infallible objects of external reality and that other ...
The action takes place in Battle Hill, outside London, [1] amidst the townspeople's staging of a new play by Peter Stanhope. The hill seems to reside at the crux of time, as characters from the past appear, and perhaps at a doorway to the beyond, as characters are alternately summoned Heavenwards or descend into Hell.
The preface ends with Faruk noting that the publisher chose the title of the book, and a remark on the nature of modern readers will try to connect the dedication to his sister to the tale that follows. (See metafiction). The story proper begins with an unnamed narrator being captured by the Turkish fleet while sailing from Venice to Naples.