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 Pavlovich 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
disatrous consequences of rationalism. The novel is also richly comic:
the Russian Orthodox Church, the legal system, and even the authors
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 Doestoevsky's genius, particularly in the use of the spoken word,
which ranges over every mode of human expression. ABOUT THE SERIES:
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ISBN
9780191647802
Publisert
2020
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OUP Oxford
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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