The Karamazov Brothers
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-18812008
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Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel, The Karamazov Brothers (1880) is both a brilliantly told crime story and a passionate philosophical debate. The dissolute landowner Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is murdered; his sons - the atheist intellectual Ivan, the hot-blooded Dmitry, and the saintly novice Alyosha - are all at some level involved. Bound up with this intense family drama is Dostoevsky's exploration of many deeply felt ideas about the existence of God, the question of human freedom, the collective nature of guilt, the disastrous consequences of rationalism. The novel is also richly comic: the Russian Orthodox Church, the legal system, and even the authors most cherished causes and beliefs are presented with a note of irreverence, so that orthodoxy, and radicalism, sanity and madness, love and hatred, right and wrong are no longer mutually exclusive.
Main title:
The Karamazov Brothers / Fyodor Dostoevsky ; edited and translated by Ignat Avsey.
Author:
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881, authorAvsey, Ignat, editor, translator
Imprint:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Collation:
1056 pages : 1 chart ; 20 cm.
Series:
Oxford World's Classics
ISBN:
9780199536375
Language:
English
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BRN:
1538348