The Adolescent

Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the French Ministry of Culture.

LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY was born in Leningrad. She has translated works by the prominent Orthodox theologians Alexander Schmemann and John Meyendorff into Russian.

Together, Pevear and Volokhonsky have translated Dead Souls and The Collected Tales by Nikolai Gogol, The Brothers Karamazov , Crime and Punishment, Notes from Underground, Demons , The Idiot, and The Adolescent by Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. They were awarded the PEN Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize for their version of The Brothers Karamazov, and more recently Demons was one of three nominees for the same prize. They are married and live in France.

Copyright © 2003 by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

This translation has been made from the Russian text of the Soviet Academy of

Sciences edition, volume 13 (Leningrad, 1975).

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the Knopf edition as follows:

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821–1881.

 [Podrostok. English]

The adolescent / Fyodor Dostoyevsky; translated from the Russian by Richard Pevear

and Larissa Volokhonsky; with an introduction by Richard Pevear.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

I. Pevear, Richard, 1943–. II. Volokhonsky, Larissa. III. Title.

PG3326.P5 2003

891.73’3—dc21

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