The Adolescent

Fyodor Dostoyevsky was a great Russian writer in the nineteenth century. Dostoyevsky's works are noted for their exploration of human psychology in the difficult society that he lived in. With classics such as Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, The Idiot, and others, Dostoyevsky remains one of the most translated authors in history.The Adolescent is a novel that tells the story of a young intellectual who is the illegitimate child of a notorious landowner. The main theme is the conflict between the different ideologies of the father and the son.