A Raw Youth

"Raw Youth," also known as "Adolescent," is a three-part novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It tells about the 19-year-old Arkady Dolgoruky, an illegitimate son of a wealthy landowner who grows up in Russia after the abolition of slavery. Like many of his age, he is overwhelmed by nihilist moods which comprise a negative attitude towards the Russian culture. His nihilism grows in opposition to his father and the "old" way of thinking, as well as attempts to establish his place in society.