Since From Raw Youths Are Made Up the Generations...”: The Concept “Disorder” and the Image of the Main Character in “The Adolescent” by F. Dostoyevsky.
This study examines how the cultural concept “disorder” is presented in Dostoyevsky's novel “The Adolescent", with a focus on its significance for the protagonist's character. The analysis centers on selected excerpts, emphasizing Dostoyevsky's distinctive narrative style and describing the role of the concept “disorder” in the novel's poetics. This approach illuminates the mechanisms the author employs to verbalize his reflections on “the Russian boys” and their interactions with a Russian society in crisis, which the romanist reflects upon. The selected passages also reveal Dostoyevsky's reflections on adolescence and its role within the broader socio-cultural crisis of his time.
