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Overview
The Brothers Karamazov is a passionate philosophical novel that enters deeply into the ethical debates of God, free will, and morality. It is a spiritual drama of moral struggles concerning faith, doubt, and reason, set against a modernizing Russia. Dostoyevsky composed much of the novel in Staraya Russa, which is also the main setting of the novel.The story of the Karamazov brothers and their varying justifications, or lack thereof, for the world.
Synopsis
After spending four years in a Siberian penal settlement, during which time he underwent a religious conversion, Dostoevsky developed a keen ability for deep character analysis. In "The Brothers Karamazov", he explores human nature at its most loathsome and cruel but never flinches at what he finds. "The Brothers Karamazov" tells the stirring tale of four brothers: the pleasure-seeking, impatient Dmitri; the brilliant and morose Ivan; the gentle, loving and honest Alyosha; and the illegitimate Smerdyakov: shy, silent, and cruel. The four unite in the murder of one of literature's most despicable characters, their father. This was Dostoevsky's final and best work.Editorials
USA Today
No reader who knows The Brothers Karamazov should ignore this magnificent translation. And no reader who doesn't should wait any longer to acquaint himself with one of the peaks of modern fiction.New York Review of Books
It may well be that Dostoevsky's [world], with all its resourceful energies of life and language, it only now—and through the medium of [this] new translation—beginning to come home to the English-speaking reader.John Bayley
. . . Dostoevsky's [world], with . . . its resourceful energies of life and language, is . . . beginning to come home to the English-speaking reader.—The New York Review of Books
Joseph Frank
Does justice to all [the novel's] levels of artistry and intention . . . come[s] as close to Dostoevsky's Russian as is possible.—Princeton University
USA Today
No reader . . . should ignore this . . . [or] wait any longer to acquaint himself with one of the peaks of modern fiction.Independent [London]
. . . brings out the richness and depth of the original . . . similar to a faithful and sensitive restoration of a painting.The New York Review of Books -
"It may well be that Dostoevsky's [world], with all its resourceful energies of life and language, is only now--and through the medium of this translation--beginning to come home to the English-speaking reader."Washington Post Book World -
"[Dostoevsky is] at once the most literary and compulsively readable of novelists we continue to regard as great . . . The Brothers Karamazov stands as the culmination of his art--his last, longest, richest and most capacious book. [This] scrupulous rendition can only be welcomed. It returns to us a work we thought we knew, subtly altered and so made new again."From Barnes & Noble
This turbulent story centers on the murder of Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov, a corrupt, loutish landowner, and the aftermath for his sons: the passionate Dmitri, the coldly intellectual Ivan, the spiritual Alexey, and the bastard Smerdyakov.Book Details
Published
March 22, 2012
Publisher
Wilder Publications
Pages
802
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781617206917