Abstract
<jats:p>The third book in the series Dostoevsky’s Novels: Current State of Research is dedicated to the novel The Adolescent and it is published in collaboration with scholars from different countries; the first book was devoted to the novel The Idiot (Moscow, Naslediye Publ., 2001), the second to the novel The Brothers Karamazov (Moscow, Nauka Publ., 2007). The book analyses the problems of a personality experiencing the process of formation, and the narrative structure of the novel that enables the author to express his complex philosophical and theological ideas through the speech of the adolescent hero; it explores the relationship of drafts to the published text, the system of allusions, reminiscences, direct and latent quotations which introduces sacred, literary, pictorial, and musical texts of European and Russian culture in Dostoevsky’s text; it provides an analysis of different performances of the novel, etc. Analytical reviews of research on the novel in the 20th and 21st centuries in Russia and abroad are published. The book is meant for readers who love Dostoevsky, as well as philologists, philosophers, and theologians.</jats:p>