The novel about "an accidental family" as a genre modification of family novel: "The adolescent" by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The article deals with the distinguishing features of the novel about «an accidental family» as a genre modification of family novel in Russian literature in the 1870s. The principal cause of this transformation is a peculiarity of the social and historical situation in Russia in the 1860s and 1870s. The novel about «an accidental family» is a novel about a chaos in Russian society, loss of traditions and faith.