Even though it’s short compared to some other works, at the end, you feel like you’ve been put through the wringer. The Adolescent: New Translation (Alma Classics), Double and the Gambler, the (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics), The Brothers Karamazov (Everyman's Library Classics), "The Eternal Husband" and Other Stories (Bantam Classic), A Gentle Creature and Other Stories White Nights; A Gentle Creature; The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (Oxford World's Classics), One Hundred Years of Solitude (Penguin Modern Classics), "Not till J. D. Salinger created Holden Caulfield has there ever been so convincing a portrait of an adolescent.". Makar Dolgoruky is a kind of gentle, idealistic, pious fellow who people naturally are drawn to and respect, and so overlaps to some degree with characters like Prince Myshkin in The Idiot and the Elder Zosima and Alyosha in The Brothers Karamazov, but again he is not nearly as well-drawn and interesting as any of these. I was in any case preparing to break away for good and had already taken the necessary steps. My mother’s good looks disappeared after the latest agonizing childbirth—at least so I was told: she soon began to age and grow sickly. It is from Tatyana Pavlovna that I’ve had all this information regarding my mother’s disposition at that time. As it is, my whole notebook will be full of this man. I was drawn to that uncharted ocean because I could actually enter it as lord and master of other people’s destinies—and what people they were! Even his children–the legitimate ones, a son and a daughter—had turned their backs on him and lived away. Maybe as important as anything is that compared to what I’ve come to expect from Dostoyevsky none of the characters comes alive or is particularly memorable. Who knows, maybe she fell hopelessly in love with… the style of his clothes, the Parisian parting in his hair, his French accent—yes, French, of which she didn’t understand a word—a romance he sang at the piano; she fell in love with something she’d never seen or heard before (and he was very handsome) and in one go she fell desperately in love with him as a whole, his style and his romances. I mean I’m sure at some level it’s not “odd,” or at least not coincidental. Nessuno pensa; di rado si trova qualcuno che concepisca un'idea. “I’ll see what happens,” I reflected. Approved third parties also use these tools in connection with our display of ads. Rarely do I have to go back through a Dostoyevsky book—or do a quick Google search—to remind myself of who a given character is, or what happened earlier in the story that might make sense of what’s happening now, but I did that multiple times while reading The Adolescent, as my mind frequently wandered. Blackbeard's Freedom: A Historical Fantasy Pirate Adventure Novel (Voyages of Queen... Blackbeard's Ship: 4 Historical Fantasy Pirate Adventures in One Book (Voyages of Q... "Not till J. D. Salinger created Holden Caulfield has there ever been so convincing a portrait of an adolescent. Makar Ivanovich wrote from various corners of Russia, from towns and monasteries, where he sometimes stayed for long periods of time. You’d think in a Dostoyevsky book it would lead to a great deal of soul-searching, analysis, and maybe guilt on the part of Arkady—think of Raskilnikov and his philosophy of life in Crime and Punishment—but not here. I also decided to go because it didn’t in the least stand in the way of my main dream. She gave her some education; that is, she taught her to sew, to cut out garments, to walk in a ladylike way and even to read a little. There are a fair number of interesting twists and turns, this novel can almost be read as a prequel to the underground man. He’s confident he’ll be able to stick to the plan because he has experimented with it already, forcing himself to live on virtually nothing for an extended period just to make sure he could do it. Even if he’s just taking a cheap shot at Poles or something, there are usually a number of good laughs in his novels. So, among the household servants, of whom there were many besides Makar Ivanovich, there was a young girl, and she was about 18 when 50-year-old Makar Dolgoruky suddenly revealed his intention of marrying her. Something went wrong. Written between The Devils and Karamazov it's fairly easy to understand why it's considered by many (Frank included) as a bit of a curio, its tone and preoccupations at odds with the remarkable quintet of masterpieces it 'interrupts'. Nevertheless, although I don't consider it among Dotoyevsky's finer works, it is still a good novel. I want to put on record the fact that I don’t recollect a single exception to this: they all asked the same thing. OK, so let’s see if I can articulate any reasons why The Adolescent didn’t impress me nearly as much as most things I’ve read by Dostoevsky. There was a considerable number of serfs on the estate, among them the gardener Makar Ivanovich Dolgoruky. I'm four volumes into Frank's truly excellent biography and critical analysis of Dostoevsky and his work and was starting to feel as though not having read A Raw Youth was a bit of a shameful lapse on my part, so I bought it thinking it must be a novella. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. ", Listen to thousands of included audiobooks, podcasts, originals and more, Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Classics), Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics), The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Modern Library Classics), The Underdogs: A Novel of the Mexican Revolution (Penguin Classics). Then he left her mostly in the care of Auntie, Tatyana Pavlovna Prutkova, that is, who always appeared out of nowhere at such moments. A short first novel, Poor Folk (1846), brought him instant success, but his writing career was cut short by his… More about Fyodor Dostoevsky, “The Adolescent is the most captivating of Dostoevsky’s novels.” —Konstantin Mochulsky, author of Dostoevsky: His Life and WorkPraise for previous Dostoevsky translations by Richard Pevear and Larissa VolokhonskyThe Brothers Karamazov:“One finally gets the musical whole of Dostoeveky’s original.” —The New York Times Book ReviewCrime and Punishment:"The best [translation] currently available . Of course, it isn't a novella, it's actually quite a big novel. These novels were The Devils, published in 1872, The Brothers Karamazov, published in 1880, and in-between those two masterpieces, The Adolescent, published in 1875. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. Pirates, plunder, and puzzles combine in Blackbeard's origin. Not his best but above average,did he ever write anything bad? However, the relationship with Makar Ivanovich never ended. Before then I’d lived among dreams, I’d lived from very early childhood in the usual realm of fantasies, but with the appearance of this all-consuming idea of mine my dreams gained focus and took on a certain form; my foolish dreams turned into rational ones. I could not have conceived of such a thing. I have a good 400 pages left to go and that's certainly ample time for things to take a nose-dive, but if it continues in the same vein as it's begun then I'll continue to be utterly enraptured. Conosco invece a Pietroburgo alcuni luoghi «felici», cioè luoghi dove una volta, per qualche ragione, sono stato felice: ebbene, ho cari questi luoghi, ed appositamente ci vado meno che posso per poter un giorno, quando mi sentirò solitario e infelice, ritornarvi a rivivere i miei ricordi in un'ora di dolce malinconia. Main Page. But it is far inferior to the classics of Dostoyevsky’s most productive period—which is the time period from which The Adolescent comes—and modestly inferior to the average of Dostoyevsky’s earlier novels and short stories. But all that is by the way. I’ve noticed this more than once about myself, and in my verbal relations with people throughout the whole of this last momentous year, and have agonized over it. . I compared it to soap opera plots above, and that’s what it feels like: the kind of artificially extreme drama of a soap opera. And he’d be right: there’s nothing more foolish than to be called Dolgoruky if you’re not a prince. This is how it happened: 22 years ago the landowner Versilov—my father—at the age of 25, paid a visit to his estate in Tula province. The Adolescent chronicles the life of Arkady Dolgoruky, the illegitimate child of the landowner Versilov and a peasant mother. By clicking Sign Up, I acknowledge that I have read and agree to Penguin Random House's Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. There’s one thing I know for sure: I’ll never again sit down to write my autobiography, even if I live to be a hundred. My mother always promptly sent her replies to Makar Ivanovich and they were all written in that same vein. Although I’ll start from 19th September, I’ll still put down a word or two about who I am, where I’d been until that day and therefore at least some of what might have been going on in my head on the morning of 19th September, to clarify things for the reader and perhaps even for myself. So, could that young man have had such sheer seductive power in him to be able to attract such a hitherto pure creature and, above all, one so alien to him, from an entirely different world, towards such obvious ruin? /* Add your own MailChimp form style overrides in your site stylesheet or in this style block. I’d even fixed the day; and meanwhile I continued to go to work. But did he have the right to look like that? From the very first time he met me after my arrival from Moscow, he didn’t treat me seriously. Edit to localize it to your language. In short, with them it began as a consequence of his seignorial rights, in spite of Mademoiselle Sapozhkova being ignored. . Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Originally, Dostoevsky had created the work under the title "Discord". See his rise to infamy! with a coiled-spring kinetic energy. He was by no means an old man, being only 45 years old. It is told from the point of view of the nineteen-year-old narrator, whose immaturity, freshness, and naïveté are unforgettably reflected in his narrative voice. Adventure fiction with a nonstop action.
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