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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 .
Denis Villeneuve directed a Canadian thriller feature film, Enemy in 2013, with a screenplay adapted by Javier Gullón from this novel. Set in Toronto, it stars Jake Gyllenhaal in a dual role as the physically identical men Adam and Anthony, Isabella Rossellini as Adam's mother, Mélanie Laurent as the professor Adam's girlfriend Mary, and Sarah Gadon as the actor Anthony's wife Helen.
The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction is the most famous work of the literary scholar Frank Kermode. It was first published in 1967 by Oxford University Press . The book originated in the Mary Flexner Lectures, given at Bryn Mawr College in 1965 under the title 'The Long Perspectives'.
The book centers around the Sanford family whose "vacation runs headlong into a moment of global crisis, but they are inside a house in sort of an isolated part of Long Island, unaware of what’s ...
At the end of the film, the pair are reunited just as Barbie is deciding whether or not to leave Barbie Land and become human. Ruth explains to her, “Being a human can be pretty uncomfortable.
In an in-depth explanation of the movie's haunting, emotional ending, Larraín tells Entertainment Weekly that the note was all real, and that Jolie preserved her real singing voice until the time ...
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 ]
“There was one ending that was really inevitable,” says Rumaan Alam, whose novel “Leave the World Behind” was the source material for Netflix’s latest apocalyptic thriller.