Ein grüner Junge

The unknown masterpiece by Dostoevsky: An inexperienced boy finds himself in the gigantic metropolis, yet in his innocence, he is wiser than all.

With the last of the elephants, Swetlana Geier delivers a spectacular conclusion to her new translations of Dostoevsky and fulfills her lifelong dream in a magnificent way after more than twenty years of translation work. As a shrewd narrator of his own life story, Arkadij Dolgorukij confronts the reader: a green boy full of lofty plans, youthful confusions, and love stories. As the illegitimate child of a impoverished landowner, Arkadij spends his youth in a noble boarding house, later becomes a private secretary to Prince Sokolskij, begins to gamble, loses, wins back, and unexpectedly finds his way back to his family, which he believed did not exist. As a chronicle of Arkadij's youthful and exuberant emotional world, the novel meanders through the life of this social vagabond. With psychological mastery, the great Russian novelist traces the story of a father-son relationship.

The reading can finally become a glorious premiere.
Neue Zürcher Zeitung

From now on, it's: Away with you, old translations! We only want the clear, rhetorically skilled Dostoevsky from Swetlana Geier.
Paul Ingendaay, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Late start, spectacular result: Swetlana Geier only began translating the great novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky at the age of 65. However, her new adaptations are considered milestones.
Der Spiegel.