Picked-Up Pieces (2013)
“MacAndrew. 585 pp. Doubleday, 1971.
Why a new translation? And, if a new translation, why of this novel? Written between The Possessed and The Brothers Karamazov, The Adolescent (entitled A Raw Youth in the 1916 translation by Constance Garnett) possesses the greatness of neither. The novel, though it bears many marks of Dostoevsky’s devotion, and definitively enunciates some of the themes dearest to him, has that penetrating badness that casts doubt over even the peaks of an author’s accomplis...hment—as, say, Across the River and into the Trees drained magic from all of Hemingway’s headwaiters and undermined forever the consolations of café stoicism. In The Adolescent the frequent feverishness of Dostoevsky’s characters appears compulsory and their willful, self-careless perversity seems merely automatic, an author’s trick he employs in scene after scene. For once, the elements of Dostoevsky’s fictional universe—the fantastically compressed action, the stunning tirades, the melodramatic welter of coincidences and encounters and incriminating documents and postponed revelations—fail to fuse into a fiery whole.MoreLess
Why a new translation? And, if a new translation, why of this novel? Written between The Possessed and The Brothers Karamazov, The Adolescent (entitled A Raw Youth in the 1916 translation by Constance Garnett) possesses the greatness of neither. The novel, though it bears many marks of Dostoevsky’s devotion, and definitively enunciates some of the themes dearest to him, has that penetrating badness that casts doubt over even the peaks of an author’s accomplis...hment—as, say, Across the River and into the Trees drained magic from all of Hemingway’s headwaiters and undermined forever the consolations of café stoicism. In The Adolescent the frequent feverishness of Dostoevsky’s characters appears compulsory and their willful, self-careless perversity seems merely automatic, an author’s trick he employs in scene after scene. For once, the elements of Dostoevsky’s fictional universe—the fantastically compressed action, the stunning tirades, the melodramatic welter of coincidences and encounters and incriminating documents and postponed revelations—fail to fuse into a fiery whole.MoreLess
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