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The Raw Youth, also published as The Adolescent or An Accidental Family, (Подросток), is a novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1st published in 1875. Ronald Hingley, specialist in his works & author of Russians & Society, named this a bad novel, whereas Richard Pevear (in the introduction to his & Larissa Volokhonsky's 2003 translation), defended its worth in spite of those who have deemed the work a failure. Originally Dostoevsky had created the work under the title "Discord".
The novel chronicles the life of 19-year-old intellectual, Arkady Dolgoruky, illegitimate child of the controversial & womanizing landowner Versilov. A focus is the recurring conflict between father & son, particularly in ideology, which represents the battles between the conventional old way of thinking of the 1840s & the new nihilistic point of view of the youth of 1860s Russia whereas the young of Arkady's time embraced a negative opinion of Russian culture in contrast to Western European culture.
Another main theme is Arkady's development & utilization of his "idea" in his life, mainly a form of rebellion against society & his father thru the rejection of attending university, making of money & becoming wealthy & powerful.