Los hermanos Karamázov es un misterio de asesinato, un drama judicial y una exploración de la rivalidad erótica en una serie de triángulos amorosos que involucran al "malvado y sentimental" Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov y sus tres hijos: el impulsivo y sensual Dmitri; el fríamente racional Ivan; y el saludable y sonrosado joven novicio Alyosha. A través de los impactantes eventos de su historia, Dostoevsky retrata la totalidad de la vida rusa, su lucha social y espiritual, en lo que fue tanto la edad dorada como un trágico punto de inflexión en la cultura rusa.
Oscar Wilde claimed that Humiliated and Insulted is not at all inferior to the
other great masterpieces and Friedrich Nietzsche is said to have wept over it.
Its construction is that of an intricate detective novel, and the reader is
plunged into a world of moral degradation, childhood trauma and, above all,
unrequited love.
Der Erzähler und Protagonist von Dostojewskis Roman ist Arkadij Dolgorukij, ein naiver 19-jähriger Junge, der vor Ambitionen und Meinungen sprüht. Der illegitime Sohn eines ausschweifenden Landbesitzers ist hin- und hergerissen zwischen dem Wunsch, das Fehlverhalten seines Vaters aufzudecken, und dem Wunsch, seine Liebe zu gewinnen. Er reist nach St. Petersburg, um sich dem Vater zu stellen, den er kaum kennt, inspiriert von einem vagen Traum von Gemeinschaft und bewaffnet mit einem geheimnisvollen Dokument, das ihm Macht über andere zu geben scheint.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky's powerful meditation on faith, meaning and morality, The Brothers Karamazov is translated with an introduction and notes by David McDuff in Penguin Classics. When brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov is murdered, the lives of his sons are changed irrevocably: Mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with his father immediately places him under suspicion for parricide; Ivan, the intellectual, whose mental tortures drive him to breakdown; the spiritual Alyosha, who tries to heal the family's rifts; and the shadowy figure of their bastard half-brother Smerdyakov. As the ensuing investigation and trial reveal the true identity of the murderer, Dostoyevsky's dark masterpiece evokes a world where the lines between innocence and corruption, good and evil, blur and everyone's faith in humanity is tested. This powerful translation of The Brothers Karamazov features and introduction highlighting Dostoyevsky's recurrent themes of guilt and salvation, with a new chronology and further reading. “There is no writer who better demonstrates the contradictions and fluctuations of the creative mind than Dostoyevsky, and nowhere more astonishingly than in The Brothers Karamazov.”—Joyce Carol Oates “Dostoyevsky was the only psychologist from whom I had anything to learn: he belongs to the happiest windfalls of my life.”—Friedrich Nietzsche “The most magnificent novel ever written.”—Sigmund Freud
