The Adolescent

Author

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Original Work

The Adolescent

Translators

Richard Pevear·Larissa Volokhonsky

Language

English

Year

2004

Publisher

Vintage

Country

United States

Pages

608

ISBN

9780375719004

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The narrator and protagonist of Dostoevsky’s novel The Adolescent (first published in English as A Raw Youth) is Arkady Dolgoruky, a na•ve 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.— Google Books