»Notes from Undergound / The Double

I began reading Fyodor Dostoevsky's novella "The Double", and, like many of the secondary characters, I find myself bewildered. The edition I have (one of the Penguin Classics series) feels a little heavy in the rendering, but frankly Dostoevsky's prose obscures his tale of a man possessed by madness (if that is, in fact, what transpires). I'm going to go back to Tolstoy's "Master and Man" for my next Russian novella, and then to Mikhail Lermontov's "A Hero For Our Time" or Nikolai Gogol's short stories.