The Adolescent: New Translation
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Among Dostoevsky's 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 O'Brien – shows Dostoevsky at his finest as a social commentator and observer of the workings of a young man's mind.
Product details
| Published | Jun 25 2016 |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 672 |
| ISBN | 9781847494993 |
| Imprint | Alma Classics |
| Dimensions | 8 x 5 inches |
| Publisher | Alma Books |
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