The question of woman is one of the major areas of debate in most contemporary societies in Nigeria in particular and throughout the world in general. Social scientists, feminists and anthologists have tried to identify the essence of "woman" and how she differs from man if indeed, such difference exists. As a result, a variety of opinions regarding the "woman" and what determined her role in the society emerged. Furthermore the question of what is intrinsically Islamic with respect to ideas about woman and gender remains complicated by several clichés which have been confused with Islam, this has led to the belief that Islamic law is anti feminism in some or all of its forms. On the other hand, feminists' discourses address basic issues of inequality in Islamic law and practice with the aim of attaining more equally balanced marital relationships, basic human rights and personal, civil and political rights. This paper attempts to examine a number of feminists' issues on the above mentioned areas. It also shed light on the treatment of women by the Islamic legal system and in modern Muslim legal interpretations. Here a return to history is required looking at religious texts and high documents in a more critical and objective manner. The study finds out that Muslim women are subjugated to various forms of denials of rights because Islam has been abandoned in practice and misrepresented by some scholars. The study recommends that Muslim scholars both male and female should play the vital role of massive enlightenment campaigns to educate the people on the Shari'ah (Islamic law), its positive attitude towards gender equality and the right of all human beings.
The purpose of this paper is to present the current situation in Albania, regarding women's representation in public administration, in front of European integration challenge. Women's representation in public administration is analyzed in this paper, with special focus at senior management position as well as in decision-making bodies, compared with the standards of gender quota in Albania and European Union countries. This analysis is based on secondary data; reports or other studies which are processed and analyzed through the statistical comparison. The methodology used is the descriptive and comparative one. There are different findings regarding the different levels of public administration. Women's representation at low and middle level of public administration, marks significant achievements, exceeded national and European gender quota standards, while at senior management level and decision making bodies it is still in critical level.
The aim of this study is to analyze and realize the application of energy extension to hold sustainable green economy of the country. Energy extensions improve access of energy to the most of the rural areas, reduce emissions of local and global pollutants, and create local socioeconomic development opportunities. Those concerns have rekindled interest in energy efficiency, energy conservation, and the development and commercialization of renewable energy technologies. The study recommends that more energy extension should be carried out to enhance energy management, performance improvement and also, environmental protection to ensure human healthy and gender equality. And Policies should focus on promoting energy extension, especially in the residential and commercial sectors to drive green economic growth.
This study focuses on the experiences of faculty members about the systems of promotions at the University of Education, Winneba, Ghana. Eight (8) senior members were interviewed comprising of four (4) female senior lecturers, two (2) male senior lecturers and two (2) senior administrative staff using a semi structured interview guide. Policy documents governing promotions, annual reports and other institutional publications were examined and analyzed as well as disaggregated statistics on promotions for senior members at the University of Education, Winneba. The findings reveal that even though there are no separate criteria for promotions for female senior members of the University, it seems that female faculty faces unparallel challenges more than the males when it comes to promotions, which the respondents attributed to existence of institutional policies/practices that works to disadvantage women. In effect there are variations in the experiences of female and male faculty members regarding promotions in academia.The study recommended that the criteria for promotion should be reviewed to give serious considerations to the weighting of teaching, vis-à-vis research, in promotion, merit increment, and tenure decisions.


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Cool Kids A-Rod and David Guetta Move to Edgewater
Oct 13, 2015 October 13, 2015
New York Yankee Alex Rodriguez, more commonly known as A-Rod, purchased the 3,200 square-foot penthouse in Edgewater's GranParaiso. The penthouse, a "flow-through" unit on the 53rd floor featuring 12 foot ceilings, sits in a project developed by the Related Group, who did not release information on the purchase price but did note that similar units sell for over $4 million.
Once the development is completed in 2018, many celebrities will be moving in along with A-Rod. DJ and record producer David Guetta, San Antonio Spurs player Manu Ginóbili, and tennis champion Arantxa Sánchez Vicario will all live in the same tower.
The project is the fourth of many Paraiso towers part of the 10-acre complex. Amenties and benefits include a 100-foot zero entry pool, children's pool, gym, spa, several bowling lanes, a virtual golf course, theater, and access to the Paraiso Beach Club. Other notable components of the tower are the lobby and public spaces designed by Piero Lissoni and a restaurant led by Michael Schwartz.
In 2013, A-Rod sold his 20,000 square-foot Miami Beach mansion on North Bay Road for $30 million. The 14-time MLB All-Star has a reported net worth of $252 million.
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Chisinau's tallest building Romashka Tower named as the ugliest in the world
Joi, 3 Octombrie 2019 14:50 2019-10-03 15:11:53 PUBLIKA.MD Comments
foto: sovietmodernism/Romashka Tower 'Ear of Corn', Chisinau, Moldova
Report by Arte TV
The Romaniţa collective housing tower which was once considered as the Chisinau people's pride, has been named the ugliest building in the world by the French Arte TV journalists. They made a report about this building.
Built in 1986 to provide temporary accommodation, the building's already decaying now though it was supposed to last a hundred years.
"People still live in this concrete rotunda which at times can feel like a prison.", writes Arte TV.
The building's name, 'Romashka' («Ромашка») (Romanian: Romaniţa), means a camomile flower. It is also known as 'Corn Cob' («кукурузный початок») as it resembles a camomile flower or a corn cob in some aspects.
According to bacu.ro, with a height of approx. 77 meter, the tower was the tallest building in Chisinau. The main function of the building is to create collective housing and the building has a height of 2S + P +22 floors. The circular shape of the building and the dimensions with a vertical development were influenced by the proximity of the location to the "Valea Trandafirilor" Park.
The building is situated at 29/2 Arheolog Ion Casian-Suruceanu Street, on the periphery of the "Valea Trandafirilor" Park, near the Republican Clinical Hospital.
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Luz Dary Castro Lemos (born May 30, 1978, in Bogotá) is a female shot putter and discus thrower from Colombia.

Career
She set her personal best (16.70m) in the women's shot put at a meet in Santiago de Chile on August 5, 2003.

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1978 births
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Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for Colombia
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Q: How do I configure routing with two optional route values? This is my route config in Startup.cs:
app.UseEndpoints(endpoints =>
{
    endpoints.MapControllerRoute(
        name: "default",
        pattern: "{controller=Home}/{action=Index}/{id?}/{tab?}");
});

Some of my views make use of both id and tab, some just id and some just tab.
id is of type Guid, and tab is of type int.
How can I configure my routing to eliminate the id-part (/0) in the following url to a view which does not make use of it?
/Home/Index/0/3 // id is not relevant, tab = 3

In this case, I have to set id to 0 in order for the url to work. This is an index-view with sub sections organized in tabs.

A: For this you can do something like. As per your comment Id is guid and tab is int.
app.UseEndpoints(endpoints =>
            {
                endpoints.MapControllerRoute(
                  name: "onlyid",
                  pattern: "{controller=Home}/{action=Index}/{id:guid}", new { tab = default(int) });

                endpoints.MapControllerRoute(
                   name: "onlytab",
                   pattern: "{controller=Home}/{action=Index}/{tab:int}", new { id = default(Guid) } );

                endpoints.MapControllerRoute(
                    name: "default",
                    pattern: "{controller=Home}/{action=Index}/{id:Guid}/{tab:int}");
            });

Now if there is only tab then onlyTab will get choose and it has default value for Guid ( Guid.Empty) but you can address like /Home/Index/1 .
If there is only id then onlyId will get selected and it has default value for integer.  Home/Index/yourguid
If you pass both then third route get selected.
Method as Controller look like following.
 public IActionResult Index(Guid? id,int? tab)
        {
            return Ok(new { Id = id, Tab = tab });
        }

A: Please try this code
public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
        {
            routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");

            routes.MapRoute(
                name: "Default",
                url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}/{tab}",
                defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional, tab= UrlParameter.Optional }
            );
        }

this like we can pass variable type and reference type parameter

A: This seems to do the trick:
[Route("Home/{tab?}")]
public async Task<IActionResult> Index(string tab)
{
    // do stuff
}

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I made my own recipe!!!!
I've been experimenting with things in the kitchen, trying to come up with something that I can truly call mine. I'm sure people have done it before me, but this recipe came about for a reason.
Ever since the opening of Live Zero's bulk buy shop, I've been trying to come up with recipes that use solely bulk buy (or plastic package-free) ingredients. That meant coming up with something that was essentially vegan. I wanted to also come up with a recipe that used more natural sugars, rather than refined sugars – with the hope that they would help curb my sweet tooth.
So, given the whole zero-waste concept, I looked at bite-sized recipes such as cookies. I did originally try this recipe out as cookies, but they don't hold their structure very well when flattened out, and tend to crumble. I tried rolling the batter into balls, and lo and behold, they worked perfectly.
There are ways to make this recipe less vegan, use eggs and butter instead of chia seeds and coconut oil. There are ways to mix ingredients in the recipe – you could add chocolate chips instead of cacao nibs, you could mix in raisins or omit it all together. You could even use half of the coconut oil and add in a nut butter of your choice instead. The possibilities are endless.
However, I wanted to make mine gluten free, and refined sugar free, for the sake of my gluten-intolerant friends, as well as making it an eco-friendlier treat.
They aren't low on the WW points scale, at 4 points a ball, but they'll keep you satiated for a long time. The main reason for this is the large quantity of coconut oil, however this is essential to ensure that the oats aren't too dry, and the balls stay moist.
Anyway, enough chit chat… on to the recipe!
Preheat the oven to 180°C, and line a baking tin with parchment paper.
In a small bowl, mix the chia seeds and 4 tablespoons of water. Set aside for ten minutes.
Pulse the dates through a food processor, to form a clump of minced dates.
In a large bowl, whisk together the dates and coconut oil. Add the chia seeds, remaining tablespoons of water and vanilla extract until the mixture comes together.
In a separate bowl, combine oats, flour, salt, baking soda, and cacao nibs.
Gradually add the oat mixture into the date mixture, until everything is combined thoroughly.
Using a tablespoon, scoop out the mixture and roll into balls. Place evenly around the baking tray.
Transfer the baking tray to the oven and bake for 10 – 12 minutes, or until the edges of the oats are golden.
Remove from the oven, and allow to cool on a wire rack lined with parchment paper.


France and Germany have struck a compromise allowing Berlin to remain the lead negotiator with Russia on the Nord Stream II gas pipeline to Europe, reports news agency AFP. The European Commission had wanted to change EU law so that in the future, gas pipelines connecting non-member states to the EU fall under EU oversight, and thus stricter rules. Until now, France had supported Germany in its opposition to the new rules, but the French foreign ministry surprisingly announced it intends to support the adoption of the gas directive amendment in a meeting of member states representatives in Brussels today. The two EU countries have now agreed to ensure oversight will come from the "territory and territorial sea of the member state where the first interconnection point is located," according to a copy of the draft proposal obtained by AFP. In the case of Nord Stream 2, this would be Germany.
The original Commission proposal would have meant that, for example, the owner of the pipeline arriving in the EU and the gas supplier cannot be the same company – which is the case with Gazprom and Nord Stream, and could have presented a significant hurdle for the project. In today's meeting, member state representatives aim to decide whether to start talks with the European Parliament on the proposed amendments, so the legislative process is set to continue. According to the Handelsblatt, the new rules could well be adopted before elections in May, and critics of Nord Stream 2 have a clear majority in the European Parliament.
The Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline, currently under construction under the Baltic Sea, has been the subject of heated debates for years. The project, scheduled for completion in late 2019, would allow additional Russian gas to flow directly to Germany. Proponents from industry and the German government argue the pipeline is a commercial investment and is key to Europe's supply security, while opponents, including some government coalition parliamentarians, object to Nord Stream 2 on environmental, geopolitical and security grounds. US ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell has repeatedly warned of a growing reliance of Europe on Russian gas, and the United States is pushing its LNG exports to Europe.


Adult Matchmaker » Who Should Pay For Our Date?
A woman may answer this question by saying, I don't think so, me pay! That's what men are for, I'm not paying for our date she might also say. Especially, if she's old school, wherein she was brought up to believe that men should be responsible for taking care of their women.
Some men would agree with women who believe that a man should take care of his woman. In fact, some men may even feel insulted if a woman even thought about paying for their date! However, not everyone would agree with this now days.
Some people believe that when you go on a date to a restaurant, movie or wherever, you should split the bill with your date. Others believe that you should pay your own bill when you're on date. In fact, some folks believe that if you pay your own bill, that neither one of you should expect the other person to owe you anything.
It is amazing that the subject of who should pay for a date, can cause a person to become apprehensive, nervous and have anxiety. Just the idea that they have to think about who will pay for the date can keep them from dating . This is because they do not want to discuss this subject and would just rather skip the date all together than deal with this issue.
1)Consider splitting the bill! Remember, you may have just started dating and you really don't know each other that well. Neither person, owes the other anything. Think of it as though, you're out with some of your friends or coworkers. Don't you normally split the bill when it comes? You probably do! So consider doing the same thing on your date.
2)Think about paying the entire bill and consider suggesting that your date pick up the tab for the next date! This gives you a good reason among other things to go on another date.
3)Make it fun! Toss a coin to see who gets to pay the bill. The winner of the coin toss does not have to pay the bill.
4)Consider inviting your date to your home for a meal or to watch movies. You won't have a bill to think about splitting and this will make your date priceless!
5)Go on a date that does not require you to split the bill. Consider going to the beach, park or do some leisure walking together. This makes for a nice date with no bill attached! You can enjoy each others company, without worrying about who will pay for the bill at the end of the date.
Enjoy your date! That's the whole idea isn't it? Don't make the question of who should pay for our date, a problem or issue for you when you date. Just go with what you feel is comfortable at the time of your date. Be spontaneous, just let the date flow, and you'll see that your date will probably work out just fine.
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Do Cats & Dogs Know What Babies Are?
By Allegra Ringo Updated December 19, 2018
Allegra Ringo
Allegra Ringo is a writer, podcaster, and pet lover. In her spare time, she eats a lot of popcorn. She has a dog named Pistachio and a cat named Rick.
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Most people who have both a pet and a (human) baby will tell you that the pet acts differently around the baby. Many people report that their pets seem to know to be gentle around human young. But do our pets really understand what a human baby is?
Some experts believe that dogs do have a sense of the difference between a baby (or a young child) and an adult human. According to Animal Planet, dogs, being pack animals, have a strong sense of who their family is (that's you!). As you probably know, dogs can be fiercely protective of their owners. So it follows that they might be even more protective of a family member who's especially small.
We're not completely sure what clues dogs into the fact that babies are more helpless than adults. It's easy to say "it's because babies look smaller," but keep in mind that a dog's sense of smell is their primary way of gathering information. As humans, we rely much more heavily on our sense of sight than our comparatively terrible sense of smell. Though we don't know for sure, babies may smell differently to our dogs than human adults do, which may help them understand what your baby's deal is.
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Of course, even if your dog has always been great around babies, you'll want to prepare your dog for a new baby's arrival. The ASPCA has some excellent tips on how to prepare your dog for their new baby sibling.
There are a number of mind-blowingly stupid myths surrounding cats and babies. A surprisingly persistent one is the belief that cats will suck the breath out of babies. How this myth has made it to 2017 is anyone's guess — it sounds it's straight out of Salem circa 1692. Needless to say (I hope), it's not true. It's an old belief that stems from the superstition that cats are evil.
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This myth also may have something to do with the fact that cats sometimes climb into cribs with babies (aw!). However, they don't do this to for any evil purpose. Rather, cats seek out heat and coziness, and babies' cribs provide both. (Though unlikely, it is technically possible for a cat to accidentally smother a baby by lying across its mouth, so never leave a baby and a cat unattended in the crib.)
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There's very little research on whether cats understand what the deal is with human babies. As stated above, they do have a tendency to crawl into cribs with sleeping infants, but that's probably due to the fact that cats love warmth and comfort, and babies, with their zeal for sleeping, are a handy source of both. Anecdotally, many cat owners also report that their cat is exceptionally patient with their baby, demonstrating more tolerance toward the baby than they do with any adult.
Interestingly, research suggests that most mammals respond to the cries of newborns, regardless of species. This would explain why both cats and dogs seem to react to the cries of human infants, and may also explain why they would demonstrate patience toward them.
Though it's not completely clear how our pets perceive our babies, we can all agree on one thing: There can never be enough videos of the two together.
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Jewish Home Chairman and Education Minister Naftali Bennett, along with his party colleague Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked have announced Saturday, that they will be leaving the party in order to establish a new right-wing party comprised of both religious and secular Israelis – "The New Right.
"The people of Israel must unite," said Bennett at a joint press conference, "Secular, traditional, religious and Ultra-Orthodox – we are all one people.
Bennett accused Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu of thinking he "has the Religious-Zionists in his pocket," and that they will always blindly follow him.
Culture Minister Miri Regev called the move a "spin on the back of Religious-Zionism," as well as an abandonment of their political house. "I call upon members of the Religious-Zionist movement, come to the true right party," said Regev, calling upon Bennett's constituents to join the Likud.


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Updated Aug 09, 2019 | 19:53 IST | Team Times Drive
2019 Jeep Wrangler has finally made it to our shores and commands a premium of ₹5.2 lakh over its predecessor. But for this price hike, the new Wrangler gets improved features and a new engine
2019 Jeep Wrangler has been launched in India at ₹63.94 lakh (ex-showroom, Delhi). This means that the latest Wrangler commands a premium of ₹5.2 lakh over its predecessor, which by the way, retailed at ₹58.74 lakh. All prices are ex-showroom. As before, the Jeep has brought only one variant of Wrangler to India, and that too through the CBU (completely built unit) route.
The 2019 Jeep Wrangler is new in every aspect. While it still looks boxy and old-school, the SUV now gets modern elements in the form of LED front headlamp, LED DRLS, LED fog lamps and new 'bolt-on' LED tail lights. The new Jeep Wrangler is longer than its predecessor by 130 mm, wider by 17 mm, and taller by 9 mm. Its wheelbase has also increased by 61 mm.
The biggest improvement on the new Wrangler is on the inside. The dashboard layout still looks very retro and functional, but the use of soft touch materials and leather does spruce up the things. On top of it, the new Wrangler is also better equipped than the previous model. It comes with an 8.4-inch touchscreen infotainment system with Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, and Jeep's UConnect connectivity suite. The instrument cluster now houses a seven-inch TFT screen which is flanked by analogue counters for speed and tachometer. Other than this, there are a number of toggle switches at driver's disposal to adjsut various settings on the SUV.
Jeep has included more than 70 safety and security features on the new Wrangler. These include electronic stability control, ABS with brake assist, all-speed traction control system, front and side airbags, and trailer control system.
In an effort to make its SUV modern, the company hasn't moved away from its core. So, the 2019 Jeep Wrangler is still a hardcore off-roader. As a matter of fact, it is better than any other Wrangler, says the company. Powering this new Jeep Wrangler is a 2.0-litre turbo petrol engine which makes 264 bhp and 400 Nm of torque. This engine is coupled to an eight-speed automatic gearbox.
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Jay Cutler's Broken Thumb – A PR Dream Machine for Hand Surgeons!
Ken Gaebler
When Bears quarterback Jay Cutler broke his thumb, most of us in Chicago were thinking (no pun intended): "What a bad break for the Bears!"
Being a twisted PR junkie and practitioner, I thought: "What a great opportunity for the nation's experts on broken hands!"
If you are in the PR biz long enough, and you are decent at it, you get a sixth sense for how events that unfold can be leveraged for PR purposes.
If you are really good, you anticipate what's possible and are ready for it, or, even better, you get in touch with journalists before the event happens - to let them know your client is available to talk if such and such unlikely event should ever happen.
If you are just good, and not great, you immediately see the PR opportunity just after something happens, and then you move like hell to be the first to reach out to journalists and get your client a good placement.
At our Chicago PR firm, Walker Sands, we don't do any PR work for hand surgeons – far from it, we are a B2B PR firm with a heavy focus on business services and high-tech PR - so Cutler's thumb disaster didn't mean much to us or to our clients, other than being bummed out like most Bears fans were (except for Daniel L., who is a Packers fan - a real one, not just a jump-on-the-band-wagon- wow-they-are-11-and-0-so-I-will-buy-one-of-those-cool-cheese-head-hats fan).
Still, from a PR firm's perspective, it's fun to deconstruct the news about Cutler's thumb and try to deduce which hand surgeons did the best at PR, establishing themselves as experts by getting quoted in the many news stories that ran on this topic.
Here are the doctors and medical facilities that had thumb drive (er, some drive - more bad thumb puns – sorry) to seize their moment in the sun. Whether they did it on their own, or had a PR firm, or just were the beneficiaries of dumb luck (thumb luck?) because a journalist did a Google search and found their name, we'll never know. In any case, here are a few guys (I guess there aren't many female hand surgeons?) who had their fifteen minutes of fame.
Randy Bindra, a hand surgeon at Loyola University Medical Center - In a Chicago Tribune article, Randy discussed the typical recovery process from surgery to repair a Bennett's fracture: "Usually after four weeks, we start gentle exercises, gentle mobilization," Bindra said. "By six-to-eight weeks, one would be able to start gripping and throwing. Typically, it would take three months to get full strength back. It's still tender after four weeks and could easily re-fracture. But the healing process is six weeks."
Mark Cohen, a hand surgeon at Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush - In another Chicago Tribune article, Cohen gave his theories on the nature of Cutler's thumb injury and its implications for the Bears: "Jay Cutler having the surgery now means the bone is broken and shifted or displaced and is not what they call a stable fracture," said Cohen, a hand surgeon at Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush. "It's an unstable fracture. On those you can't wait because they'll heal crooked or won't heal properly. The guy had a significant thumb injury and he's got to have the bone fixed so the bone can heal. He has no choices. The doctors have no choices. This is cut-and-dried."
Dr. Leon Benson, Chief of the Division of Hand and Upper Extremity Surgery at NorthShore University HealthSystem - In the same article that mentioned Mark Cohen, Benson asserted his thought leadership on a healthy thumb's role in winning a football game: "Finger and thumb injuries are often underestimated and people think he can walk it off or play with it but there are certain injuries that make it unusable," said Benson. "If his thumb isn't skeletally stable it's impossible to throw. Easily you can have a thumb injury that knocks you out for six to eight weeks."
Dr. Steve Shin, a Los Angeles-based surgeon at the Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic - Even hand surgeons who are not even in the Chicago area were able to get in on this PR action. In a Chicago Sun-Times blog post, Shin (a funny name for a hand surgeon, don't you think?) added his expertise to the topic: "It all depends on where the fracture is and what kind of fracture," Shin said. Shin said an MRI would only be necessary, if there are concerns of a "ligament avulsion, where the ligament between the thumb and index finger actually tears off."
The bottomline? PR is everywhere. The Bears? They are probably nowhere without their starting QB.
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The title of this post is a quotation (p. 246) from Dostoevsky's 1875 novel The Adolescent (sometimes also known in English as The Raw Youth), and reflects the dangerous and wholehearted naivety of the book's narrator, Arkady Makarovich Dolgoruky.
Dostoevsky never does anything by halves, so he mercilessly and minutely describes the painful and prolonged repercussions of Arkady's immaturity, selfishness, and stupidity; he does this specifically in relation to a compromising letter written by the beautiful Katerina Nikolaevna. How Arkady has come to possess this letter, why everyone is desperate to get their hands on it, and what it means for those who want it, are at the heart of Dostoevsky's penultimate novel.
A pretty basic concept, but Dostoevsky's novel was, to me, shockingly hard to follow and the revelation of Important Things generally much too portentously represented. A large part of why the convoluted plot was so difficult to keep track of is that, entirely unlike his other works (according to my previous experience with him), the characters in The Adolescent are so vaguely drawn as to be, at points, indistinguishable. And if you're having trouble differentiating between Anna Andreevna and Katerina Nikolaevna - arch enemies at war over a rich old prince! - then something's gone very wrong.
Gorgeous, hair-raising, painfully naive and beautifully inspiring precisely for being so. Yet, such compelling meditations seemed somehow unconnected from the nitty gritty of the actual plot in The Adolescent, whereas in the other Dostoevsky books I've read, they were absolutely and perfectly necessary to one another.
I think the problem, in the end, is that Dostoevsky's vision for this novel appears to have been, to my surprise, that it would function as a sort of exploration of what it means to write fiction. The majority of the book, which comprises Arkady's "Notes" on the social disasters surrounding his possession of Katerina's letter is, in the end, commented on by a character mentioned but never "used" in the novel - he reads the "Notes" and his response to Arkady is all about how they could function as the basis of a literary work and what it means to be create literary art. This epilogue was very awkwardly done, in my opinion, and seemed to further diffuse rather than unify the book's disparate elements discussed above.
Overall, The Adolescent wasn't satisfying but it had such profound and beautiful moments that I couldn't bring myself to stop reading it even as I found myself more irritated than impressed. But perhaps, had I read The Adolescent before I read The Brothers Karamazov, I would have adored the former; this is the risk for the literary genius - that his or her readers will read their best work first, condemning everything else to comparative mediocrity.
I sometimes worry about that with classic authors! I've only read Crime & Punishment, which I loved, but I have Brothers Karamazov patiently waiting for me on my shelves. It sounds like maybe I should read some of his less well-known works first!
I've never read either, so Dostoevsky is safe from me. ;) But I think that's the danger with every author, isn't it? There's always that favorite book that you love, and the rest never quite measure up.
I was thinking as I read that I should read Brothers K before I The Adolescent, but then you made such a good point that now I have to rethink that!
Eva: If I had my reading life to do over again, I might well read only the lesser known works of classic authors, just to save the best for last.
heidenkind: Very often, but not always. I love everything David Mitchell has so far published. All for different reasons.
Stefanie: Do it! And then you'll have The Brothers Karamazov to look forward to still...!