Teenager

Along with the novels «Crime and Punishment», «The Idiot», «Demons» and «The Brothers Karamazov», the novel «Teenager» is part of the so-called great pentateuch of Dostoevsky, which earned the writer worldwide fame. Aiming to write a novel «about the current... Russian children, about their current fathers in their current mutual relationship», Dostoevsky addresses the theme of fathers and children, and the problem of spiritual development of the individual, which is relevant at all times. The thirst for money and power, the dream of superiority over millions of «ordinary» people, pride — these are the dangers that await the Russian teenager. Are they surmountable, and what will ultimately prevail: revolt against people and God or love for «living life»?..