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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)<p>This superb new translation-never before published-of one of Dostoevskyâs major novels comes from the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. <i>The Adolescent</i> (originally published in English as <i>A Raw Youth</i>) is markedly different in tone from Dostoevskyâs other masterpieces. It is told from the point of view of the nineteen-year-old narrator, whose immaturity, freshness, and naà̄veté are unforgettably reflected in his narrative voice.</p><p>The illegitimate son of a landowner, Arkady Dolgoruky was raised by foster parents and tutors, and has scarcely ever seen his father, Versilov, and his mother, Versilovâs peasant common-law wife. Arkady goes to Petersburg to meet this 'accidental family' and to confront the father who dominates his imagination and whom he both disdains and longs to impress. Having sewn into his coat a document that he believes gives him power over others, Arkady proceeds with an irrepressible youthful volatility that withstands blunders and humiliations at every turn. Dostoevsky masterfully depicts adolescence as a state of uncertainty, ignorance, and incompleteness, but also of richn

Author

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Publisher

Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9781400041183

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.94 / 5 (10 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14