DoppelgängerDoppelgnger consists of two stories that skillfully revisit the question of doubles (famously explored by Stevenson, Dostoyevsky and others), and how an individual is perpetually caught between their own beliefs and those imposed on them by society. Arthur and Isabella is a story of the relationship between two elderly people who meet on New Years Eve a romantic encounter which turns into a grotesque portrayal of the loneliness of old age. The second

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They are drawn from family relationships

Allen Fisher

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The second story ‘Pupi’  — a strange mirror of the first — centres on the life of a man who ends up on the streets and associates only with street-sellers the rhinoceroses in the zoo

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Dictionary for the Idle includes chapters on:

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Using her seemingly inconsequential but deeply resonant protagonist