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A Raw Youth (The Adolescent)
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"A Raw Youth (The Adolescent)" is Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 1875 novel which tells the story of the life of a 19-year-old intellectual, Arkady Dolgoruky, who is the illegitimate child of the controversial and womanizing landowner Versilov. The novel focuses primarily on the conflict that arises between Arkady and Versilov, when Arkady rejoins his family in St. Petersburg. Arkady who has been away at boarding school hardly knows his family and when he comes to learn more about them he becomes embroiled in the scandalous affairs of his father. Rich with the depictions of the complex psychological, emotional, and moral conflicts that plague the human condition and are so common to the characters of Dostoyevsky's work, "A Raw Youth (The Adolescent)" is a classic work by an author who many consider as the greatest to ever have lived.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoyevsky was born in Moscow in 1821. He died in 1881 having written some of the most celebrated works in the history of literature, including Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Brothers Karamazov.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I find Dostoevsky compelling in general. Yet, this novel was a challenge to finish. So much chaos! But that is his main point: depicting the chaos of the time.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Gosh. I feel so conceited, judging the work of dostoyevsky. lol. I pulled into Fyodor with The Idiot, of course, as I had severe temporal lobe epilepsy also for years. I read so many other of his works and other Russian authors, even giving my son a Russian varriant spelling and nick-name. How to start? Well, I didn't finish this one. I re-checked it out once, but still couldn't finish it. I gave it three stars, as I mean to check it out again before I die and attempt to finish it. While some of the material was eerily sweetly familiar, I still found myself tiredly plowing through another schism of acute self-consciousness. Which is the point, this is a novel titled, "The Adolescent". Yet, yet, ....... Three stars, and I'll attempt to finish it some other day. I was interested to the point of taking notes, before I gave up.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This book has been overlooked to an astonishing degree, even by fans of Dostoyevsky, and perhaps I could understand why. But it is not bad by any means - compared to the rest of his books, a merely interesting book can seem awful in comparison.
The plot concerns an adolescent (although the translation is still up for a fine-tuned debate) who is illegitimate and something about a mysterious letter. It is not exactly full of the grand philosophy and debate that Dostoyevsky employs, but what he does have is still as good as ever. The narrator's voice is surprisingly convincing. The ambition and soul of a ninteteen year old is well done.
Worth reading if you're already a fan of Dosty. I would not recommend this to people who are not used to him yet, though. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I waited a number of days after finishing this book to gather my thoughts and to be able to give justice to Dostoyevksy's genius in this remarkable novel, which is not as well known as "Crime and Punishment", "Brothers Karamazov", and "The Idiot"... And still I think I would fail at this task. I was, of course, overjoyed to have read it in original. The language is remarkable. Dostoyevksy's craft of describing his protagonist's sentiments, aspirations and ruminations is unparalleled. It's rare to see agony manifested in a more poignant way. We also come to know of the author's own thoughts on many problems of his day. In short, was quite an experience to be immersed in this novel.
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A Raw Youth (The Adolescent) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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