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Within Vinony's link graph, The Double is referenced by 81 other articles, and connects out to Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Nikolai Gogol and Russia.
It is catalogued under topics including 1846 Russian novels, Existentialist novels and Fiction about bureaucracy.
Its subject is documented across 31 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Author
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Original title
- Двойникъ
- Translator
- Constance Garnett , George Bird, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky , Evelyn Harden, Hugh Aplin
- Language
- Russian
- Genre
- novel
- Publisher
- Otechestvennye zapiski
- Publication date
- January 30, 1846
- Publication place
- Russia
- Library of congress classification span
- PG3326 .D8
- Original text
- Двойникъ at Russian Wikisource
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- literary work
- Author
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Country of origin
- Russian Empire
- Followed by
- Netochka Nezvanova
- Follows
- Poor Folk
- Image
- Dvoinik.png
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- language of work or name
- Russian
- title
- Двойник
- publication date
- 1846-02-01
- inception
- 1845-00-00
- published in
- Otechestvennye Zapiski
- subtitle
- Ένα ποίημα της Πετρούπολης
- copyright status
- public domain
- derivative work
- The Double
- work available at URL
- www.projekt-gutenberg.org/dostojew/doppelga/doppelga.html
- first line
- Было без малого восемь часов утра, когда титулярный советник Яков Петрович Голядкин очнулся после долгого сна, зевнул, потянулся и открыл наконец совершенно глаза свои.
- Commons category
- The Double
- form of creative work
- novella
- translator
- Constance Garnett
- narrative motif
- doppelgänger
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Encyclopedic overview
The Double: A Petersburg Poem (Russian: Двойник. Петербургская поэма, romanized: Dvoynik. Peterburgskaya poema) is the second novel written by Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published on 30 January 1846 in the Otechestvennye zapiski. It was subsequently revised and republished by Dostoevsky in 1866.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Double” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.