Brothers Karamazov

Author: Dostoevsky
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Publish Date: 2002-09-01
Features: This book is the last novel of the great Russian writer Dostoevsky and one of his main representative works. The author uses the tragic patricide as the main plot, creating the typical images of the old Karamazov and his several sons. In a small town, the father and the eldest son Mitka compete for a common mistress, and they become irreconcilable due to disputes over property. The illegitimate son of the old man, Smeltyakov, influenced by the extreme egoism of his second son Ivan's philosophy of life ("a man can do as he pleases"), and also because he was humiliated, he takes advantage of the conflict between the father and the eldest son to kill his own father. The eldest son Mitka is suspected and imprisoned; the second son Ivan is tormented by guilt and becomes mentally unstable; Smeltyakov also commits suicide due to a mental breakdown; only the innocent and kind youngest son Alyosha remains, who is full of love for everyone. He is unwilling to stay alone in his hometown and leaves. The Karamazov family finally ceases to exist.