Work Classification Layer
Compare Works
Pick two or more works to set their attribute fingerprints, dimension-by-dimension passages, and shared school embodiments side by side. Especially useful for author-stage comparisons (Wittgenstein early vs late) and for setting a single tradition's foundational texts against each other.
The Adolescent
Dostoevsky's 1875 novel 'The Adolescent' — fatherhood, money, and the search for an 'idea'
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | The Adolescent (Late) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Both |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Non-Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Infinite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | Implicit |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Implicit |
| Matter · Extent | Finite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Implicit |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Immediate |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Personal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Revelation |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Finite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Irreversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Implicit |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
The Adolescent
1874-75 composition; serialised 1875; book 1876. Dostoevsky was 54.
Space
The Adolescent
St Petersburg — the novel's setting, and Dostoevsky's residence during composition. The geographical-cultural space is the post-emancipation, post-1860s-reform Russian capital, with its mix of impoverished gentry, rising bourgeoisie, and revolutionary student-intelligentsia.
Matter
The Adolescent
Long novel in three parts (~600 pages in modern editions). Form is first-person retrospective narration: the older Arkady looking back on the events of his nineteenth year.
Observer
The Adolescent
Late Dostoevsky. The observer-novelist is the established author of Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and Demons, working toward the final synthesis of The Brothers Karamazov.
Energy
The Adolescent
Late-novelistic energies. The novel combines Dostoevsky's characteristic philosophical-religious thematics with the technical experiment of sustained first-person narration by a young, unreliable narrator.
Information
The Adolescent
Three-part novel. The Makar Dolgoruky sections (Part III) introduce one of Dostoevsky's most explicit Russian-Orthodox-spiritual figures.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Dostoevsky's fourth great novel — less famous than the surrounding three but a major Bildungsroman. Often the least-discussed of the major novels in Anglophone scholarship; the Makar Dolgoruky figure has been continuously cited as anticipating Zosima in The Brothers Karamazov.