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In an age before psychology was a modern scientific field, Fyodor Dostoyevsky (November 11, 1821 - February 9, 1881) was a Russian writer of realist fiction and essays that explored the depths of the human psyche. Known for acclaimed novels Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and... Read Full Overview

"Not till J. D. Salinger created Holden Caulfield has there ever been so convincing a portrait of an adolescent."--Toronto Daily Star

"The Adolescent" is Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 1875 novel which tells the story of the life of a 19-year-old intellectual, Arkady Dolgoruky, and his conflict with his father. Arkady is the illegitimate child of the controversial and womanizing landowner Versilov and was raised by... Read Full Overview

El adolescente es una novela del autor ruso Fi dor Dostoievski, publicada por primera vez en 1875. En El adolescente, Dostoievski retoma la figura del narrador autodieg tico escribiendo en primera persona que ya hab a utilizado en Noches blancas. El texto consiste en las Memorias... Read Full Overview

Set in the 1870s, a time of social disorder in Russia, An Accidental Family is the story of Arkady Dolgoruky, an awkward, illegitimate twenty-year-old on a desperate search for his family. This new translation of Dostoevsky's last completed novel fully captures the raciness and... Read Full Overview

En El adolescente, Dostoievski escribe en primera persona. La novela se desarrolla principalmente en base a la relaci n del protagonista con su padre, por quien inicialmente siente rechazo y finalmente adoraci n. Lo odia como consecuencia de ciertos rumores que acusan a ste... Read Full Overview

Las novelas de Dostoiewski parten de una experiencia vivida dram ticamente y que el autor transforma magistralmente en una ficci n que no deja de ser siempre un trasunto de la realidad. Este realismo es el que caracteriza a El adolescente, novela que tiene como principal protagonista... Read Full Overview

La novela se desarrolla principalmente sobre la base de la relaci n del protagonista con su padre, Andr i Vers lov, por quien inicialmente siente rechazo y finalmente adoraci n. Lo odia como consecuencia de ciertos rumores que acusan a ste de diversos actos negativos hasta que... Read Full Overview

The Raw Youth, also published as The Adolescent or An Accidental Family, is a novel by Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky, first published in 1875. Ronald Hingley, author of Russians and Society and a specialist in Dostoyevsky's works, named this novel a bad one, whereas Richard... Read Full Overview

The Raw Youth, also published as The Adolescent or An Accidental Family, is a novel by Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky, first published in monthly installments in 1875 in the Russian literary magazine Notes of the Fatherland. Originally, Dostoevsky had created the work under... Read Full Overview