Notes from UndergroundP; (1864) is a study of a single character, P#39;the real man of the Russian majorityP#39;, and a revelation of DostoyevskyP#39;s own deepest beliefs. One of his best critics has said of the first part that it forms his P#39;most utterly naked pages. Never afterwards was he so fully and openly to reveal the inmost recesses, unmeant for display, of his heart.P#39; P#39;The DoubleP#39; (1846) is the nightmarish story of Mr Golyadkin, a man who is haunted or possessed by his own double. Is P#39;Mr GolyadkinjuniorP#39; really a double or simply a fearful side of his own nature? This uncertainty is what gives urgency and horror to a tale which may be read as a classic study of human breakdown.
