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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.
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
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
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 ...
Nabokov sent the manuscript to Hutchinson & Co. in April 1936; the company had initial reservations, but eventually agreed to publish the book. The translation was checked by a Molly Carpenter-Lee, a student of Nabokov's friend Gleb Struve. The book was a complete flop commercially and Nabokov only earned €40, a minuscule amount even in the ...
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 ...
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 ...