Literary Fiction
The Adolescent (Vintage Classics)
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky
1875·580 pages
A naive 19-year-old navigates ambition and family conflict in St. Petersburg, torn between exposing and loving his flawed father.
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A naive 19-year-old navigates ambition and family conflict in St. Petersburg, torn between exposing and loving his flawed father.
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The narrator and protagonist of Dostoevsky’s novel The Adolescent (first published in English as A Raw Youth ) is Arkady Dolgoruky, a na•ve 19-year-old boy bursting with ambition and opinions. The illegitimate son of a dissipated landowner, he is torn between his desire to expose his father’s wrongdoing and the desire to win his love. He travels to St. Petersburg to confront the father he barely knows, inspired by an inchoate dream of communion and armed with a mysterious document that he believ...
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Sexual content
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Minor romantic tension; no explicit content depicted.
Violence & gore
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Brief mentions of conflict; no graphic violence shown.
Profanity
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Mild language used sparingly in dialogue.
Substance use
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Occasional references to alcohol; not central to story.
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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No evidence found in available sources.
Religious content
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Moderate religious themes tied to morality and redemption.
Magic & witchcraft
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No fantasy magic present.
Occult / demonology
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No occult content present.
Political content
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Moderate social critique of class and family dynamics.
Self-harm / suicide
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Brief mentions of emotional despair; no explicit acts.
Abuse & suffering
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Moderate themes of familial neglect and emotional cruelty.
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