- Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, Identity (Philosophical concept), Social life and customs
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".
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- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Фёдор Достоевский
- First published
- 1916
- Pages
- 580
- Publisher
- Juventud, R. Piper, Macmillan Pub Co
- Editions
- 79
- Language
- Chinese, German, French, Russian
- ISBN
- 9780434204106
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“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.”
Russian novelist Fyodor Mikhailovitch Dostoyevsky was a journalist and short-story writer, whose psychological penetration into the human soul profoundly influenced the 20th century novel. Dostoevsky's novels have much autobiographical elements, but ultimately they deal with moral and philosophical questions. He presented interacting characters with contrasting views or ideas about freedom of choice, Socialism, atheisms, good and evil, happiness and so forth. Dostoevsky's central obsession was God, whom his characters constantly search through painful errors and humiliations. ([Source](http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/fdosto.htm)) Dostoyevsky's literary output explores human psychology in the trou
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