Information about the author:
Caterina Corbella, Associate Researcher, Research Centre “Dostoevsky and World Culture”, A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya 25 a, 121069 Moscow, Russia.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5996-0127
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Abstract:
The article analyses the Italian reception of Dostoevsky’s novel The Adolescent. The small number of translations of the novel into Italian, as well as the lack of critical works devoted specifically to it, indicate little interest in the book on the part of both the average Italian reader and the academic community, especially when compared to other works by Dostoevsky. The second part of the article offers an overview of the prefaces to the various editions, which are, in fact, the only works devoted exclusively to the novel in Italian.