Brothers Karamazov

Author: Dostoevsky
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Publish Date: 2004-11-01
Features: The Brothers Karamazov is one of the major works of the great Russian writer of the 19th century, Dostoevsky. The novel depicts a sharp conflict between the old Karamazov and his three sons, spanning two generations, through a real case of patricide. The old Karamazov is greedy, lustful, and hoards the inheritance left for his sons by his wife, while he also competes with his eldest son, Dmitri, over a woman of easy virtue. One night, suspecting his lover of meeting the old man, Dmitri breaks into the house and, in a fit of rage, nearly kills him. Fleeing in panic, he hides in the shadows of the illegitimate son of the secretly ill old Karamazov, Smertsov, who then quietly kills the old man, resulting in a shocking and mysterious bloodshed thats the entire Russian Empire and triggers a series of thrilling events. The work showcases a complex social, family, moral, and human tragedy, reflecting the writer's highest artistic achievement in his lifetime.