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The Adolescent

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by Fyodor Dostoevsky


  84 We have a silver rouble that we lent [sic] from our new friend.

  85 We pay you back with much thanks.

  86 Hey, Lambert! where’s Lambert, have you seen Lambert?

  87 Sir (polite form of direct address in Polish).

  88 Twenty-five roubles.

  89 Farewell, my prince.

  90 Very beautiful.

  91 Put that in, and it changes the question.

  92 Property is theft.

  93 The truth’s in wine.

  94 I’m a gentleman before all and I’ll die a gentleman!

  95 Decree of fate.

  96 Ah, good evening.

  97 Well! . . . and what about friends?

  98 What a bear!

  99 Yes, yes . . . it’s a shame! A lady . . . Oh, you’re generous, you are! Don’t worry, I’ll make Lambert see reason . . .

  100 Oh, I said he had a heart!

  101 Isn’t it so, isn’t it so?

  102 He always appeals to one’s feelings . . .

  103; Afterwards, afterwards, don’t you think? My dear friend!

  104 Yes, yes, he’s charming . . .

  105 But it’s terrible what you say.

  106 Isn’t it so? I don’t talk much, but I speak well.

  107 That’s right.

  108 He seems to be stupid, this gentleman.

  109 Nothing, nothing at all . . . But I’m free here, am I not?

  110 Dear Prince, we should be friends even by right of birth.

  111 That’s my opinion!

  112 She’s an angel, she’s an angel of heaven!

  113 I say charming things and everybody laughs . . .

  114 Dear child, I love you.

  115 Yes, yes, I understand, I understood at the beginning . . .

  116 That black man.

  117 Madame the general’s wife.

  118 Wait, I’ve forgotten his name . . . A dreadful man . . . Wait, Versiloff.

  119; Oh, they will take their revenge!

  120 Save her, save her!

  121 You’re a pretty one, you are!

  122 Scratch a Russian and you’ll find a Tartar.

  ABOUT THE TRANSLATORS

  RICHARD PEVEAR has published translations of Alain, Yves Bonnefoy, Alberto Savinio, Pavel Florensky, and Henri Volohonsky, as well as two books of poetry. He has received fellowships or grants for translation from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Guggenheim 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

  2003044885

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