Doppelganger

Author : Daša Drndic
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811228924
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doppelgänger written by Daša Drndic and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 163 pages. 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.

Author : David Stahler, Jr.
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062007327
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doppelganger written by David Stahler, Jr. and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-03-09 with total page 285 pages. 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.

Author : Andrew J. Webber
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191583936
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Doppelgänger written by Andrew J. Webber and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1996-06-27 with total page 393 pages. 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.

Author : Dimitris Vardoulakis
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823233006
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Doppelganger written by Dimitris Vardoulakis and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Doppelgänger or Double presents literature as the "double" of philosophy. There are historical reasons for this. The genesis of the Doppelgänger is literature's response to the philosophical focus on subjectivity. The 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 post-War extrapolations of the subject as decentred. From this perspective, the Doppelgänger has a "family resemblance" to current conceptualizations of subjectivity. It becomes the emblematic subject of modernity. This is the first significant study on the Doppelgänger's influence on philosophical thought. The Doppelgänger emerges as a hidden and unexplored element both in conceptions of subjectivity and in philosophy's relation to literature. Vardoulakis demonstrates this by employing the Doppelgänger to read literature philosophically and to read philosophy as literature. The Doppelgänger then appears instrumental in the self-conception of both literature and philosophy.

Author : Dimitris Vardoulakis
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823232980
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Doppelgänger written by Dimitris Vardoulakis and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Doppelganger presents literature as the double of philosophy. This relation is historically rooted in the genesis of the doppelganger as literature's response to the philosophical focus on subjectivity: The term doppelganger 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 doppelganger has a family resemblance to current conceptualizations of subjectivity. It becomes the emblematic subject of modernity. This is the first significant study of the doppelganger's influence on philosophical thought. Reading literature philosophically and philosophy as literature, Vardoulakis 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 doppelganger emerges as a hidden and unexplored element both in conceptions of subjectivity and in philosophy's relation to literature.

Author : Alex Pardee
Publisher : Gingko Press Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781584235736
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doppelgangers written by Alex Pardee and published by Gingko Press Editions. This book was released on 2015-02 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zerofriends co-founder Alex Pardee returns with a collection of some of the most horrifying and iconic characters of film, video games and comics with Doppelgangers. The monograph displays a parade of serial killers, demons, aliens and psychopaths, from early Universal monsters in melancholy black and white to modern horrors captured in full bloody color. The freaks of cult classics rub shoulders with the slick killers of modern blockbusters, all captured with Pardees signature deranged style and a sense of childlike delight. Nostalgia and terror mix with the blood, guts and slime that drip from the collections pages, but above all, Pardees tongue-in-cheek humor shines through, with characters like Space Balls Dark Helmet jostling for space alongside the Thing, Hannibal Lector and Godzilla. In Doppelgangers, Pardee invites us to get cozy with the evil twins and dark doubles of pop culture.

Author : Rebecca Caprara
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1647000599
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doppelganger Danger (Mission Multiverse Book 2) written by Rebecca Caprara and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five middle schoolers’ quest to save the multiverse continues in this explosive follow-up to Mission Multiverse, perfect for fans of the Percy Jackson series This action-packed sequel finds middle-school band geeks Dev, Isaiah, Tessa, Maeve, and Lewis trapped in a parallel version of Earth as they fight to save their families—and the entire rest of the multiverse—from the villainous Empyrean One. Far from home and running out of options, it will take everything they have to get back to Earth and preserve humanity once and for all. The startling revelation that they are their own worst enemies forces a painful decision: will they forsake the lives they once knew for an uncertain future? Perfect for fans of the Percy Jackson series, this sweeping space adventure combines dry wit with a tension-laden plot to keep readers glued to the page.

Author : Naomi Klein
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374610339
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doppelganger written by Naomi Klein and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | National Indie Bestseller "I’ve been raving about Naomi Klein’s Doppelganger . . . I can’t think of another text that better captures the berserk period we’re living through." —Michelle Goldberg, The New York Times "If I had to name a single book that makes sense of these last few dark years, it would be this one." —Katie Roiphe, The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) “If ever a book was necessary, it’s this one.” —Bill McKibben “Thoughtful and honest . . . Incisive . . . Klein moves her reader toward the truer grounds of solidarity in these times.” —Judith Butler What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self—a double who was almost you and yet not you at all? What if that double shared many of your preoccupations but, in a twisted, upside-down way, furthered the very causes you’d devoted your life to fighting against? Not long ago, the celebrated activist and public intellectual Naomi Klein had just such an experience—she was confronted with a doppelganger whose views she found abhorrent but whose name and public persona were sufficiently similar to her own that many people got confused about who was who. Destabilized, she lost her bearings, until she began to understand the experience as one manifestation of a strangeness many of us have come to know but struggle to define: AI-generated text is blurring the line between genuine and spurious communication; New Age wellness entrepreneurs turned anti-vaxxers are scrambling familiar political allegiances of left and right; and liberal democracies are teetering on the edge of absurdist authoritarianism, even as the oceans rise. Under such conditions, reality itself seems to have become unmoored. Is there a cure for our moment of collective vertigo? Naomi Klein is one of our most trenchant and influential social critics, an essential analyst of what branding, austerity, and climate profiteering have done to our societies and souls. Here she turns her gaze inward to our psychic landscapes, and outward to the possibilities for building hope amid intersecting economic, medical, and political crises. With the assistance of Sigmund Freud, Jordan Peele, Alfred Hitchcock, and bell hooks, among other accomplices, Klein uses wry humor and a keen sense of the ridiculous to face the strange doubles that haunt us—and that have come to feel as intimate and proximate as a warped reflection in the mirror. Combining comic memoir with chilling reportage and cobweb-clearing analysis, Klein seeks to smash that mirror and chart a path beyond despair. Doppelganger asks: What do we neglect as we polish and perfect our digital reflections? Is it possible to dispose of our doubles and overcome the pathologies of a culture of multiplication? Can we create a politics of collective care and undertake a true reckoning with historical crimes? The result is a revelatory treatment of the way many of us think and feel now—and an intellectual adventure story for our times.

Author : Ken Westell
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0991721012
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doppelganger written by Ken Westell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-11-26 with total page 251 pages. 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.

Author : Mary D. Edwards
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476669295
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doppelgangers, Alter Egos and Mirror Images in Western Art, 1840-2010 written by Mary D. Edwards and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion of a person--or even an object--having a "double" has been explored in the visual arts for ages, and in myriad ways: portraying the body and its soul, a woman gazing at her reflection in a pool, or a man overwhelmed by his own shadow. In this edited collection focusing on nineteenth- and twentieth-century western art, scholars analyze doppelgangers, alter egos, mirror images, double portraits and other pairings, human and otherwise, appearing in a large variety of artistic media. Artists whose works are discussed at length include Richard Dadd, Salvador Dali, Egon Schiele, Frida Kahlo, the creators of Superman, and Nicola Costantino, among many others.