EBOOK Karamazov Brothers

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 som elevel 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 Russiam 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 areno longer mutually exclusive. Rebecca West considered it        "e;the allegory for the world's maturity"e;, 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. the        disastrousconsequences of rationalism. The novel is also richly comic; the Russian        Orthodox Church, the legal system, and even the author's most cherished characters        and causes are presented in an irreverent light, so that there appears no sharp        distinction between health and disease or right or wrong.