Deborah Levy

Double Vision – The Doppelgänger, a fiction

My intention is to research the subject of the doppelgänger in order to make a start on the first draft of my next novel. The story will feature the apparent “double” of a living person, both inhabiting different European countries in the same time frame.

Deborah Levy is a novelist and playwright. The author of six works of literature and two works of memoir, Things I Don’t Want to Know, and The Cost of Living, she was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for her novels, Swimming Home and Hot Milk. Her plays have been staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Her acclaimed dramatizations of two of Freud’s most iconic case histories on the subject of hysteria and infantile neurosis, “Dora and The Wolfman,” were broadcast on BBC Radio 4. She is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature.