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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. The cover shows a detail from Convicted by V.Y. Makovsky. (back cover)
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The Brothers Karamazov, Fjodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski
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- Released
- 1982
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- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Released
- 1982
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 939
- ISBN10
- 0140444165
- ISBN13
- 9780140444162
- Series
- First published
- 1880
- Original title
- Братья Карамазовы (Braťja Karamazovy)
- Rating
- 4.35 out of 5
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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. The cover shows a detail from Convicted by V.Y. Makovsky. (back cover)