The Brothers Karamazov
by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский
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The Brothers Karamazov, the culmination of Dostoyevsky's work, was completed in 1880, shortly before his death.
A portrait of his contemporary Russian society in the turbulent 1870s, the novel intoduces Fyodor Karamazov, a mean and disreputable landowner, and his three legitimate sons: Dmitry, a profligate army officer; Ivan, a writer with revolutionary ideas; and Alexy, a religious novice. In the presence of the monk Zossima, they meet to resolve a family dispute.
A tense and magnificent story unfolds through these characters, a drama of parricide and fraternal jealousy which profoundly involves questions of anarchism, atheism and the existence of God. As an artist and as a great and fearless thinker, Dostoyevsky triumphantly fulfills his aim, as recorded in his diary, to find the man in man.
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The Brothers Karamazov
1986, William Benton (Encyclopædia Britannica), Encyclopaedia Britannica, Encyclop©Œdia Britannica
Hardcover
in English
- 28th Printing
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The Brothers Karamazov
1982, Penguin Books
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in English
- Reissued in one volume (10)
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"ALEXEY KARAMAZOV WAS THE THIRD SON of Fyodor Karamazov, a landowner well known in our district in his own day, and still remembered among us because of his gloomy and tragic death, which happened thirteen years ago, and which I shall describe in its proper place."
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The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky’s crowning achievement, is a tale of patricide and family rivalry that embodies the moral and spiritual dissolution of an entire society (Russia in the 1870s). It created a national furor comparable only to the excitement stirred by the publication, in 1866, of Crime and Punishment. To Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov captured the quintessence of Russian character in all its exaltation, compassion, and profligacy. Significantly, the book was on Tolstoy’s bedside table when he died. Readers in every language have since accepted Dostoevsky’s own evaluation of this work and have gone further by proclaiming it one of the few great novels of all ages and countries.
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