Contributions

  • Richard Pevear (Translator) - Contributor
  • Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator) - Contributor

Publication

2004-12-07 - Vintage

Language

English

Word Count

152,000 words, Guess

Page Count

608 pages

Identifiers

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Classifications

  • LCCPG3326 .P5 2003

Description

The Raw Youth (Russian: Подросток, Podrostok), 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 the title "Discord".

Description

Nineteen-year-old Arkady Dolgonsky has difficulty establishing his personal identity amid the political and social upheavals of nineteenth-century Russia.

First Sentence

I couldn't resist: I sat down and started writing the story of my first steps in life, although I could've managed very well without doing so.

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