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 intensely dramatic 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 graduating from gymnasium. It is here, in the capital, that Arkady, who has suffered all his life because of his origins, hopes to become a new Rothschild — to acquire freedom and power through wealth. By a twist of fate, he comes into possession of a compromising document that could change the destiny of a young woman. Arkady’s father is fervently passionate about this woman — and he himself falls in love with her…