The Double by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Book Review)

I'm on a roll with Russian literature. Why haven't I read it from years ago? Why did I have to wait until 2023 to read it? After reading Tolstoy's War & Peace, I then started with another Russian author, Dostoyevsky and now can't get enough. In this video, I talk about my own thoughts of reading The Double - one of his earlier works.

I also make some long links to Sylvia Plath (I'm currently reading Ariel, a collection of her poems) and found out that her dissertation was on The Double! How freaky is that?

The Double made me think long and hard about how at times, we can be two people at once. The person when you are by yourself and the person who (you think you have to be) when facing society. However, in this video I focused on another aspect. The aspect of not a 'double per se' but instead people who may steal your ideas, claim your work as their own simply because they are seen to be more friendly, approachable - and then how this impacts your own identity (gaslighting) and how to reclaim that attention back to your work as the original person. Okay, deep.

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