Dostoevsky and World Culture Dostoevsky and World Culture 2619-0311 2712-8512 IWL RAS https://doi.org/10.22455/2619-0311-2021-4-176-195 Articles The Italian Reception of Dostoevsky’s Novel The Adolescent Caterina Corbella fedor@dostmirkult.ru 25 12 2021 1 4 176 195 The Adolescent reception Dostoevsky in Italy Russian literature in Italy Copyright © 2026, IWL RAS 2026 The article analyses the Italian reception of Dostoevsky’s novel The Adolescent. The small number of translations of the novel in Italian, as well as the lack of critical works specifically devoted 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 in Italian exclusively devoted to the novel.