Dostoevsky and World Culture Dostoevsky and World Culture 2619-0311 2712-8512 IWL RAS https://doi.org/10.22455/2619-0311-2021-3-39-52 Articles Confession and Writing in Dostoevsky’s Novel The Adolescent Maria Candida Ghidini fedor@dostmirkult.ru 25 09 2021 1 3 39 52 Dostoevsky Rousseau сonfession The Adolescent Copyright © 2026, IWL RAS 2026 This article analyses the specificity of Dostoevsky’s confessional prose, focusing on the novel The Adolescent. Dostoevsky can be defined as a superconfessional author, but he is characterized by a certain suspicion, and a certain mistrustfulness towards the very process of confession is typical of him. The article attempts to show that this apparent paradox has its origins in the modern context in which Dostoevsky operates, when religious, sacramental confession gives way to a psychological practice of self-affirmation.