The Double

《双重人格》的主人公戈利亚德金为人正派，崇尚道义，但他自己幻想出了另一个与他长相一模一样的人——小戈利亚德金。在他的幻想中，这个人冒充自己的身份，到处招摇撞骗，还处处羞辱他，与他作对。这种病态心理搅乱了他的生活，使他精神分裂。

他完全生活在自己的幻想中，试图拆穿小戈利亚德金的假冒身份和卑劣行径，维护自己的声誉，却总以失败告终。

故事采用了奇特的表达手法进行叙述，但在阅读过程中可以慢慢掌握一定的阅读节奏和技巧，便能够很容易进入主人公的内心世界了。

Constantly rebuffed from the social circles he aspires to frequent, the timid clerk Golyadkin is confronted by the sudden appearance of his double, a more brazen, confident and socially successful version of himself, who abuses and victimizes the original. As he is increasingly persecuted, Golyadkin finds his social, romantic and professional life unravelling, in a spiral that leads to a catastrophic denouement.

The Double, Dostoevsky’s second published work of fiction, which foreshadows in its themes many of his mature novels, is the surreal and hallucinatory tale of an unfortunate anti-hero, at once chilling in its depiction of the dark sides of human nature and exuberantly comical.

作者：陀思妥耶夫斯基（1821—1881），“俄国文学三巨头”之一，影响世界文学的重要作家。

译者：臧仲伦（1931—2014）：北京大学教授，中国作家协会会员，中国翻译协会“资深翻译家”，翻译了陀思妥耶夫斯基的大量作品，并与巴金先生合译了赫尔岑的《往事与随想》。