The adolescent
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor 1821-1881
The adolescent / Fyodor Dostoevsky ; translated by Dora O'Brien. - London : Alma Classics, 2016. - ix, 655 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm.
"New translation"--Cover.
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.
Translated from the Russian.
9781847494993
2016438210
Fathers and sons --Fiction--Fiction.
Russia--History--1801-1917--Fiction
Russia--Social life and customs--Fiction
Russian literature
Literary classics
PG3326 / .P5 2016
The adolescent / Fyodor Dostoevsky ; translated by Dora O'Brien. - London : Alma Classics, 2016. - ix, 655 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm.
"New translation"--Cover.
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.
Translated from the Russian.
9781847494993
2016438210
Fathers and sons --Fiction--Fiction.
Russia--History--1801-1917--Fiction
Russia--Social life and customs--Fiction
Russian literature
Literary classics
PG3326 / .P5 2016
