The Adolescent (Vintage Classics) - Softcover

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0375719008 ISBN 13: 9780375719004

Publisher: Vintage, 2004

Synopsis

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 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.

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From the Back Cover:

“In the variety of its happenings, the assortment of its characters, the intensity of its passions, and the effect of its conflicts, The Adolescent is the most captivating of all Dostoevsky’s novels.”
—Konstantin Mochulsky, author of Dostoevsky: His Life and Work
Praise for Previous Translations by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, Winners of the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize

THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV
“One finally gets the musical whole of Dostoevsky’s original.”
—NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

“It may well be that Dostoevsky’s [world], with all its resourceful energies of life and language, is only now—and through the medium of [this] new translation—beginning to come home to the English-speaking reader.”
—NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

“The best [translation] currently available . . . An especially faithful re-creation . . . with a coiled-spring kinetic energy . . . Don’t miss it.”
—WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD

“Reaches as close to Dostoevsky’s Russian as is possible in English . . . the original’s force and frightening immediacy is captured . . . The Pevear and Volokhonsky translation will become the standard version.”
—CHICAGO TRIBUNE

DEMONS

“The merit in this edition of Demons resides in the technical virtuosity of the translators . . . They capture the feverishly intense, personal explosions of activity and emotion that manifest themselves in Russian life.”
—NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

“[Pevear and Volokhonsky] come into their own when faced with Dostoevsky’s wonderfully quirky use of varied speech patterns . . . A capital job of restoration.”
—LOS ANGELES TIMES

About the Author:

About the Translators:

Richard Pevear has published translations of Alain, Yves Bonnefoy, Alberto Savinio, Pavel Florensky, and Henri Volohonsky, as well as two books of poetry. He has received fellowships or grants for translation from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the French Ministry of Culture.

Larissa Volokhonsky was born in Leningrad. She has translated works by the prominent Orthodox theologians Alexander Schmemann and John Meyendorff into Russian. Together, Pevear and Volokhonsky have translated Dead Souls and The Collected Tales by Nikolai Gogol, The Complete Short Novels of Anton Chekhov, and The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, Notes from Underground, Demons, The Idiot, and The Adolescent by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

They were awarded the PEN Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize for their version of The Brothers Karamazov, and more recently Demons was one of three nominees for the same prize. They are married and live in France.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0375719008
• ISBN 13: 9780375719004
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 608