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Doppelgänger

2019-09-24 Fiction
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Release : 2019-09-24
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 924/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Doppelgänger by : Daša Drndic

Download or read book Doppelgänger written by Daša Drndic. This book was released on 2019-09-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize 2019, a swift, biting novel from the late Croatian master, Dasa Drndic Two elderly people, Artur and Isabella, meet and have a passionate sexual encounter on New Year’s Eve. Details of the lives of Artur, a retired Yugoslav army captain, and Isabella, a Holocaust survivor, are revealed through police dossiers. As they fight loneliness and aging, they take comfort in small things: for Artur, a collection of 274 hats; for Isabella, a family of garden gnomes who live in her apartment. Later, we meet the ill-fated Pupi, who dreamed of becoming a sculptor but instead became a chemist and then a spy. As Eileen Battersby wrote, “As he stands, in the zoo, gazing at a pair of rhinos, in a city most likely present-day Belgrade, this battered Everyman feels very alone: ‘I would like to tell someone, anyone, I’d like to tell someone: I buried Mother today.’” Pupi sets out to correct his family’s crimes by returning silverware to its original Jewish owners through the help of an unlikely friend, a pawnbroker. Described by Dasa Drndic as “my ugly little book,” Doppelgänger was her personal favorite.

Doppelganger

2010-03-09 Young Adult Fiction
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Release : 2010-03-09
Genre : Young Adult Fiction
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Book Rating : 327/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Doppelganger by : David Stahler, Jr.

Download or read book Doppelganger written by David Stahler, Jr.. This book was released on 2010-03-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doppelgangers are monsters, hardwired for murder. They are not supposed to have doubts, but this one does. He wishes he could be different. More human, maybe. But even that can't stop him from killing people so he can take their places and live their lives. He has to do it; it's who he is. But when the doppelganger murders a small-town teenager, assumes his shape, and takes over his life, he's shocked by the world he steps into. Engulfed in a whirlwind of peer pressure, messy family dynamics, and a provocative relationship with a beautiful girl, he quickly learns that there's more than one way to be human, and many ways to be a monster. Told in the tortured voice of a most extraordinary teen, this contemporary gothic romance brews a captivating combination of violence, desire, and atonement. Here is the story of a monster yearning for a human life.

The Doppelgänger

1996-06-27 Literary Criticism
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Release : 1996-06-27
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 936/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Doppelgänger by : Andrew J. Webber

Download or read book The Doppelgänger written by Andrew J. Webber. This book was released on 1996-06-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since its literary coinage in Jean Paul's novel, Siebenkäs (1796), the concept of Doppelgänger has had significant influence upon representations of the self in German literature. This study charts the development of the double from its origins in the Romantic period, through its more marginal - but nonetheless significant - manifestations in the post-Romantic culture, to its revival at the fin-de-siècle and transfer to the silent screen. The book features an introduction to the practice and theory underlying the use of the Doppelgänger, with particular reference to psychoanalysis, followed by chapters on Jean Paul, Hoffmann, Kleist, poetic realism (Droste-Hülshoff, Keller, Storm) and modernism (Kafka, Rilke, Hoffmannsthal, Schnitzler, Meyrink, Werfal). This study shows that the often underestimated figure of the double may provide a key to the epistomological, aesthetic and psychosexual structures of the texts it visits and revisits, with a particular focus on its effects in the fields of vision and language.

The Doppelgänger

2010 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2010
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 980/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Doppelgänger by : Dimitris Vardoulakis

Download or read book The Doppelgänger written by Dimitris Vardoulakis. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents literature as the double of philosophy. This relation is historically rooted in the genesis of the doppelgänger as literature's response to the philosophical focus on subjectivity: the term doppelgänger was coined by the German author Jean Paul in 1796 as a critique of idealism's assertion of subjective autonomy, individuality, and human agency. This critique prefigures late twentieth century extrapolations of the subject as decentered. From this perspective, the doppelgänger has a family resemblance to current conceptualizations of subjectivity. It becomes the emblematic subject of modernity. This book examines authors such as Franz Kafka, Maurice Blanchot, and Alexandros Papadiamantes and philosophers such as Immanuel Kant, Walter Benjamin, and Jacques Derrida to show how the doppelgänger emerges as a hidden and unexplored element both in conceptions of subjectivity and in philosophy's relation to literature.

Doppelganger

2012-11-26 Fiction
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Release : 2012-11-26
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis Doppelganger by : Ken Westell

Download or read book Doppelganger written by Ken Westell. This book was released on 2012-11-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank has a habit of throwing himself against the floor to ceiling windows in his 38th floor office. He does this to emphasize the importance of risk-taking. One day the window comes out. George is in the office when Frank falls. Marcia is at street level when Frank lands. George and Marcia are linked by Frank's fall and separated by the four and a half seconds it took him to travel the 38 stories. When they meet, time starts to unravel.

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