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The Double

José Saramago

Tertuliano Máximo Afonso is a history teacher in a secondary school. He is divorced, involved in a rather one-sided relationship with a bank clerk, and he is depressed. To lift his depression, a colleague suggests he rent a certain video. Tertuliano watches the film and is unimpressed. During the ni...

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Rotten Mango

The hosts mentioned Dostoevsky's novel The Double as an early example of the doppelganger trope, describing its plot about a meek clerk meeting a man who looks exactly like him.

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Even the classics love this trope. Dostoevsky wrote Double where the main character is like this meek government clerk and he meets a man who looks exactly like him. Same face, same name, same everyth...

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The hosts mentioned Dostoevsky's novel The Double as an early example of the doppelganger trope, describing its plot about a meek clerk meeting a man who looks exactly like him.

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Even the classics love this trope. Dostoevsky wrote Double where the main character is like this meek government clerk and he meets a man who looks exactly like him. Same face, same name, same everything, same job, but everyone loves him. Nobody likes the main character, but everybody loves him.

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