The Adolescent

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Constance Garnett (Translator)

Overview

The Adolescent (first published in English as A Raw Youth) is Arkady Dolgoruky, a naive 19-year-old boy bursting with ambition and opinions. The illegitimate son of a dissipated landowner, he is torn between his desire to expose his father's wrongdoing and the desire to win his love. He travels to St. Petersburg to confront the father he barely knows, inspired by an inchoate dream of communion and armed with a mysterious document that he believes gives him power over others. This new English version by the most acclaimed of Dostoevsky's translators is a masterpiece of pathos and high comedy.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940163072828
Publisher:	Walrus Books Publisher
Publication date:	07/04/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (/?d?st?'j?fski, ?d?s-/; Russian: ????? ????´?????? ??????´?????; IPA: ['f??d?r m??'xajl?v??t? d?st?'j?fsk??j]; 11 November 1821 – 9 February 1881), sometimes transliterated Dostoevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher. Dostoyevsky's literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmosphere of 19th-century Russia. Many of his works are marked by a preoccupation with Christianity, explored through the prism of the individual confronted with life's hardships and beauty.