El adolescente

Dostoyevsky's novels start from an experience lived dramatically, which the author masterfully transforms into a fiction that is always a transcript of reality. This realism is what characterizes The Adolescent, a novel whose main protagonist is a young Russian who admires or hates his father according to the contradictory influences he receives. The life of the adolescent and of an altarpiece of characters, wonderfully characterized by Dostoyevsky and that bustle around him, creates a crescendo in the novel, which is what moves the reader not to abandon reading until the last page. The adolescent makes his "I" the center of the world and fantasizes about universal happiness, without struggling to achieve his own. A novel of psychological depth, in the best style of Dostoyevsky.