description: The Brothers Karamasov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons―the impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; and the healthy, red-cheeked young novice Alyosha. Through the gripping events of their story, Dostoevsky portrays the whole of Russian life, is social and spiritual striving, in what was both the golden age and a tragic turning point in Russian culture.This award-winning translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky remains true to the verbalinventiveness of Dostoevsky’s prose, preserving the multiple voices, the humor, and the surprising modernity of the original. It is an achievement worthy of Dostoevsky’s last and greatest novel.
language: English
title: The Brothers Karamazov
titlecomplete: The Brothers Karamazov
characters: Mikhail Osipovich Rakitin, Pavel Smerdyakov, Liza Khokhlakov, Nikolai Krassotkin, Katerina Ivanovna Verkhovtseva, Ivan Fyodorovich Karamazov, Agrafena Alexandrovna Svetlova, Katerina Ospovna Khokhlakov, Alexei Fyodorovich Karamazov, Dmitri Fyodorovich Karamazov, Father Zosima, the Elder, Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov, Ilyusha Snegiryov
genres: Fiction, Religion, Philosophy, Classic Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, 19th Century, Russian Literature, Russia
ratings_count: 316439
places: Russia
publisher: Macmillan Co.