![]() ![]() This passionate novel of ethics and morality, religion and philosophy, was Dostoevsky’s final and best work. While on the surface a story about patricide, this novel is, on a deeper level, a spiritual tale of the struggle between faith, doubt, reason, and free will. The four unite in the murder of one of literature’s most despicable characters - their father. ![]() 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. ![]() In The Brothers Karamazov, he explores human nature at its most loathsome and cruel but never flinches at what he finds. Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett, Frederick DavidsonĪfter 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. ![]()
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