KaramazovБратья Карамазовы
Russian · Fyodor Dostoevsky
A murder, a trial, and the largest questions a soul can ask.
The opening, set exactly as it reads in the app.
Dostoevsky’s last novel is one of the few books that seem to hold everything — a parricide, a trial, and behind them the largest questions a person can ask. Three brothers and their grotesque father play out the warring faculties of a single soul, and Ivan’s ‘Grand Inquisitor’ is still the most formidable case against God ever set in a character’s mouth, answered only by the book that surrounds it. To read it through is to come out larger than you went in.
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The particulars.
- The text
- Братья Карамазовы, Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Translation
- Public-domain Russian (Dostoevsky, d. 1881). English: Constance Garnett, 1912 (public domain).
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