The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Publisher:

Lowell Press

, n.d.

Overview

As the largest of Dostoevsky’s works and his last novel before he died, The Brothers Karamazov is remembered as his magnum opus. In this philsophical masterwork, Dostoevsky tells the story of the three Karamazov brothers—the monastic novice Alyosha, the unbeliever Ivan, and the soldier Dmitri. The spiritual drama that unfolds encompasses philosophical and spiritual issues in a sweeping spectrum, breaking into morality and free will, tradition and progress, and faith and doubt. In no time, this masterwork was accalaimed a masterpeice in world literature, and has had major influence over other authors and philosophers, including Franz Kafka, Albert Einstein, Cormac McCarthy, Martin Heidegger, Kurt Vonnegut, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Ernest Hemingway.

Contents

Top Highlights

“As a general rule, people, even the wicked, are much more naïve and simple-hearted than we suppose. And we ourselves are, too.” (Page 4)

“An elder was one who took your soul, your will, into his soul and his will. When you choose an elder, you renounce your own will and yield it to him in complete submission, complete self-abnegation. This novitiate, this terrible school of abnegation, is undertaken voluntarily, in the hope of self-conquest, of self-mastery, in order, after a life of obedience, to attain perfect freedom, that is, from self; to escape the lot of those who have lived their whole life without finding their true selves in themselves.” (Page 24)

“Mitya, or rather Dmitri Fyodorovitch, was the only one of Fyodor Pavlovitch’s three sons who grew up in the belief that he had property, and that he would be independent on coming of age.” (Page 6)

“Finally, she left the house and ran away from Fyodor Pavlovitch with a destitute divinity student, leaving Mitya, a child of three years old, in her husband’s hands.” (Page 3)

“The socialist who is a Christian is more to be dreaded than a socialist who is an atheist.” (Page 68)

Product Details

• Title: The Brothers Karamazov
• Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Series: World’s Literary Masterpieces
• Publisher: Lowell Press
• Print Publication Date: n.d.
• Logos Release Date: 2014
• Pages: 900
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Fathers and sons › Fiction; Brothers › Fiction; Russia › Social life and customs--1533-1917--Fiction
• Resource ID: LLS:BRTHRSKRMZV
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T19:15:13Z

About Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky (November 11, 1821 – February 9, 1881) was a Russian writer of novels, short stories and essays. He is best known for his novels Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov. Dostoyevsky’s literary works explored human psychology in the troubled political, social and spiritual context of 19th-century Russian society.