The Adolescent: New Translation

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Among Dostoevskys later novels, The Adolescent occupies a very special place: published three years after The Devils and five years before his final masterpiece, The Karamazov Brothers, the novel charts the story of nineteen-year-old Arkady the illegitimate son of the landowner Versilov and the maid Sofia Andreyevna as he struggles to find his place in society and become a Rothschild against the background of 1870s Russia, a nation still tethered to its old systems and values but shaken up by the new ideological currents of socialism and nihilism. Both a Bildungsroman and a novel of ideas, dealing with themes such as the relationship between fathers and sons and the role of money in modern society, The Adolescent here presented in a brand-new translation by Dora OBrien shows Dostoevsky at his finest as a social commentator and observer of the workings of a young mans mind.

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The Adolescent really is an unjustly neglected book. As a study of the coming of age of a confused young man, it couldnt be bettered for capturing his mindset; and as the saga of a truly dysfunctional Russian family it cant be faulted. * Shiny New Books *

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Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) is considered one of the greatest writers of all times. His works include such seminal novels as Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Karamazov Brothers.