The last and greatest work by the nineteenth-century Russian writer
and philosopher: “The most magnificent novel ever written”
(Sigmund Freud). “[The Brothers Karamazov] is a philosophical
novel, a family drama, a murder mystery, and a love story. It’s also
an immortal masterpiece. “The ferocious, idiosyncratic vitality
of Dostoyevsky’s fiction captures readers again and again. So do his
indelible characters. “From the novel’s earliest scenes
introducing the Karamazovs—the brothers and their drunken, obnoxious
father—Dostoyevsky acknowledges that ideas can’t exist without
people and that people are the true subject of any novel. Those scenes
are both a searching debate about faith and virtue and a sequence
that’s recognizable to anyone who has ever spent the holidays with
[a] collection of family members ranging from the endearing to the
intolerable. It is also, if you ignore Dostoyevsky’s reputation for
seriousness, very funny . . . If Ivan’s existential confusion
doesn’t speak to you, the Karamazovs’ complicated love lives, both
sordid and transcendent, never fail to fascinate. Their problems,
however grounded in their particular moment in Russian history, seem
only a hair’s breadth away from our own. How powerful is love? Hate?
Blood? Money? Faith? What makes this great novel immortal is not its
answers but its questions, questions we continue to ask ourselves,
decades after the world that forged The Brothers Karamazov has passed
away.” —Laura Miller, Slate “There is no writer who better
demonstrates the contradictions and fluctuations of the creative mind
than Dostoyevsky, and nowhere more astonishingly than in The Brothers
Karamazov.” —Joyce Carol Oates
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ISBN
9781504061452
Publisert
2020
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Open Road Media
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Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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