Review“The Adolescent is the most captivating of Dostoevsky’s novels.” —Konstantin Mochulsky, author of Dostoevsky: His Life and Work__Praise 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 . . . an especially faithful recreation . . . with a coiled-spring kinetic energy. . . . Don't miss it." —_The Washington Post Book World_Demons_:“A capital job of restoration." --Los Angeles Times_From the Trade Paperback edition.Product DescriptionThe 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 believes gives him power over others. This new English version by the most acclaimed of Dostoevsky’s translators is a masterpiece of pathos and high comedy.From the Trade Paperback edition.