This might seem to be moving away from Golyadkin, but in point of tone The Double and The Possessed draw closest to one another, and to Don Quixote, in the ludicrous materialities of preparation, and in their juxtaposing of very particular odds and ends with an airy universality which in lesser hands would be emptiness.
This might seem to be moving away from Golyadkin, but in point of tone The Double and The Possessed draw closest to one another, and to Don Quixote, in the ludicrous materialities of preparation, and in their juxtaposing of very particular random items with an airy universality which in lesser hands would be emptiness.