Forward, June 27th, 2003
00-00-0000 The double was a figure of great importance in 19th-century novels. From the literal-mindedness of Robert Louis Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde to the genius of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's saints and sinners, novelists used the notion of duality to explore the human capacity for good and evil. The theme fell out of fashion in the 20th century, however, the casualty of an era whose monsters and crimes exceeded the imaginings of that earlier time. But the double has made its return in the Booker Prize nominee, "The Strange Case of Dr. Simmonds and Dr. Glas," by Welsh-Jewish poet and a...
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