Teenager

A confessional novel about the search for a "guiding thread of behavior, good and evil, which is absent in our society," Dostoevsky's perspective on the eternal problem of fathers and children — and one of the most gripping and underrated parts of the "pentateuch of Dostoevsky."
19-year-old Arkady Dolgoruky, the illegitimate son of landowner Versilov and a serf, arrives in St. Petersburg after completing gymnasium. It is here, in the capital, that Arkady, who has suffered all his life because of his origins, hopes to become the new Rothschild — to find freedom and power through wealth. By chance, he comes into possession of a compromising document that could determine the fate of a young woman. Arkady's father is passionately in love with this woman — and he himself falls in love with her too…