The Karamazov Brothers
Contributors: Ignat Avsey (Translator)
Edition: 1st World's Classics paperback edition (1)
Series: The World's Classics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Oxford, England
Language: eng
Translated from: rus
Translation of: Братья Карамазовы
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 1056
ISBN-13: 9780192826640
Copyright date: 1994
Other titles: The Brothers Karamazov
First sentence: ALEKSEI FYODOROVICH KARAMOZOV was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov, a landowner of our district, extremely well known in his time (and to this day still remembered in these parts) on account of his violent and mysterious death exactly thirteen years ago, the circumstances of which I shall relate in due course.
Description: 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 Pavlovicht 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 author's 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. Rebecca West considered it 'the allegory for the world's maturity', but with children to the fore.

This new translation does full justice to Dostoevsky's genius, particularly in the use of the spoken word, which ranges over every mode of human expression.
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