Binding: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780393009958ISBN:0393009955
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Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday, Garden City
Date Published: 1971 1971
Description: A good reading copy only. Dust Jacket may have chips and close tears. A former library book with the usual identifiers in a protective glossy dust jacket covering. -First edition, Hard Cover, Good / Good. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday
Date Published: 1971
Description: Good. Hardcover ex-library book with dust jacket in good condition. All usual stamps and markings. Pages are clean and the binding is tight. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Vintage Books
Date Published: 2004-12-01
ISBN-13:9780375719004ISBN:0375719008
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780393009958ISBN:0393009955
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Everymans Library
Date Published: 2003-11-01
ISBN-13:9781400041183ISBN:140004118X
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9781400041183ISBN:140004118X
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Edition: Stated First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday
Date Published: 1971
Description: Fair in Fair jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; Type: Ex Library Cover and pages clean. some edge/corner wear. binding secure. some underlining on pages. dust jacket clean. ex library book insignia. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Everymans Library, North Clarendon, Vermont, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9781400041183ISBN:140004118X
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"The new translations coming out are a great excuse to read the Dostoevsky oeuvre all over again. The father/son relationship in this book smote me on the head with its genius. In the Adolescent we see characters rehearsed that have popped up in other D. books--but this makes then no less entrancing here. Like The Idiot, the Adolescent contains every bit as much of the enjoyable, complicated, gossipy narrative and cloth tearing joys and frustrations that we love in better known works."
"This is my first foray into Dostoevsky, and I truly admired his grasp of adolescent psychology and his ability to accurately maintain Arkady's voice and character. His ambition, over-confidence, and firmness in principle are so spot-on. I loved that Dostoevsky keeps the plot twisting and turning so that, at any point, despite the protagonist's conviction, he is never correct in his conclusions.
That being said, I struggled with the greater theme: the discrepancy in ideology between generations. Having not read Crime and Punishment or Notes from Underground, and not being acquainted with Dostoevky's knack for critiques of nihilism and utilitarianism, this part of the book was harder for me to tackle. This component of the experience was overshadowed for me by the spot-on consistency of Arkady's thoughts, actions, motivations, and rationalizations.
So, while I do feel somewhat uncomfortable giving it the same accolades as the other two I have read thus far, I did feel genuinely amazed by it, even if I can acknowledge it is, in some ways, inferior to some of his other works. It's more enjoyable as a study of its narrator than as a thematic statement, for sure. And it did, after all, sell me on Dostoevsky's brilliance, so, five stars it is."
"Well there were some beautiful passages, but to me it doesn't live up to Notes from Underground, Crime & Punishment, The Idiot, or The Brothers Karamozov. The last 150 pages seemed a chore to get through.
"Not his best. But there's this: "And so, if you want to discern a man and know his soul, you must look, not at how he keeps silent, or how he speaks, or how he weeps, or even how he is stirred by the noblest ideas, but you had better look at him when he laughs. . . And I especially recommend it to those would-be brides who are ready to marry their chosen man, but keep scrutinizing him with hesitation and mistrust, and can't make the final decision.""
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