This article is intended as an approach to some particular cases in Literature, those we know as “Literature of the Double” or “Doppelgänger”, and some other names. The way in which I approached the idea of Double in Literature deals more with the way it is built than the intention, style or perception of it the author may have. Basically I tried to analyse the main moments in the structure of this kind of stories (what I called “Origin”, how the Double becomes real in the story; “Meeting”, how the character knows about the Double; and “Ending”, the elimination of one of the components of the Double). The conclusions I got after doing this research show how important these three moments are in the case of Double in Literature.

Doble, Doppelgänger, Literatura, estructura