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Fydor Dostoevsky, ‘The Adolescent,’ also called ‘Raw Youth’ is my first delve into a Russian Author.
He seems to have a way with hooking you to the next section. I almost always did not stop at the end of the Chapter but would read the first page or two of the next. Parts of the novel was incoherent in some places and I would need to go back to totally understand what just happened.
An intriguing scene in the book, I thought, was the gambling scene, where all kinds of crazy things happen.
The action and interactions were furious. Arkady bounced around like a basketball down a mountain...ups, downs and landslides! Bumbling through his teens, not knowing who, what or where he belonged.
Not knowing either father well made it very difficult on Arkady to find his way and make something of his life. To have ones to love and share his life with was a struggle. He seemed to be drawn in by the wrong people and they tend to use him for their own needs.
The Cast of Characters were well established and all had major ties to Arkady. Their emotions ran the gauntlet of intensity in their passions and the effect of the conflicts in someway or another affected all of them in their lives.
It was a whirlwind that I was happy to tackle!
He seems to have a way with hooking you to the next section. I almost always did not stop at the end of the Chapter but would read the first page or two of the next. Parts of the novel was incoherent in some places and I would need to go back to totally understand what just happened.
An intriguing scene in the book, I thought, was the gambling scene, where all kinds of crazy things happen.
The action and interactions were furious. Arkady bounced around like a basketball down a mountain...ups, downs and landslides! Bumbling through his teens, not knowing who, what or where he belonged.
Not knowing either father well made it very difficult on Arkady to find his way and make something of his life. To have ones to love and share his life with was a struggle. He seemed to be drawn in by the wrong people and they tend to use him for their own needs.
The Cast of Characters were well established and all had major ties to Arkady. Their emotions ran the gauntlet of intensity in their passions and the effect of the conflicts in someway or another affected all of them in their lives.
It was a whirlwind that I was happy to tackle!