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The Double is the most Gogolesque of Dostoevsky's works; its subtitle "A Petersburg Poem" echoes that of Gogol's Dead Souls. Vladimir Nabokov called it a parody of " The Overcoat ". [ 4 ] Many others have emphasised the relationship between The Double and other of Gogol's Petersburg Tales .
Three days later, as Tertuliano is reading about Mesopotamian civilization, the phone rings. He answers and a man on the other end of the line exclaims, "At last!" in a voice identical to his own. The man says he has been trying to reach him for months and claims to be his double. Tertuliano agrees to meet him in a nearby park that night.
The Double is a 2013 British black comedy thriller film written and directed by Richard Ayoade and starring Jesse Eisenberg and Mia Wasikowska. It is based on the 1846 novella The Double by Fyodor Dostoyevsky , about a man driven to breakdown when he is usurped by a doppelgänger . [ 3 ]
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Joker: Folie à Deux has shocked and divided fans over its layered plot twists — and that explosive ending. The highly anticipated sequel to 2019’s Joker officially hit theaters on Friday ...
The Double (Chinese: 墨雨云间) is a 2024 Chinese television series based on the novel Marriage of Di Daughter by Qian Shan Cha Ke. [1] It stars Wu Jinyan and Wang Xingyue in leading roles. The series premiered on Youku on June 2, 2024.
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 filmmaker says the creature "represents the monstrous part that we try to hide so much because we feel that we can't adapt or fit" — like Sue concealing her true identity, or Elisabeth ...