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Reading The Double by Fyodor Dostoevsky was unlike reading a traditional novel. The story often felt confusing, repetitive, and disorienting, but I believe that was intentional. Rather than simply telling the reader about a man losing his sanity, Dostoevsky forces the reader to experience that confusion firsthand. By the end of the novel, I realized that the plot itself is less important than the psychological journe