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by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Author), David McDuff (Introduction, Translator) "Aleksey Fyodorovich Karamazov was the third son of a landowner in our district, Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov, so noted in his time (and even now still..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 960 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Classics; Rev Ed edition (27 Feb 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0140449248
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140449242
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
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When brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov is murdered, the lives of his sons are changed irrevocably: Mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with his father immediately places him under suspicion for parricide; Ivan, the intellectual, whose mental tortures drive him to breakdown; the spiritual Alyosha, who tries to heal the family's rifts; and the shadowy figure of their bastard half-brother Smerdyakov. As the ensuing investigation and trial reveal the true identity of the murderer, Dostoyevsky's dark masterpiece evokes a world where the lines between innocence and corruption, good and evil, blur and everyone's faith in humanity is tested.


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Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky was born in Moscow in 1821. Between 1849 & 1854 he lived in a convict prison, and in later years his passion for gambling led him deeply into debt. He died in 1881. He is also the author of Crime & Punishment, The Idiot and The Devils. David McDuff has translated a number of 19th-century Russian prose works for Penguin Classics.
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Aleksey Fyodorovich Karamazov was the third son of a landowner in our district, Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov, so noted in his time (and even now still recollected among us) for his tragic and fishy death, which occurred just thirteen years ago and which I shall report in its proper context. Read the first page
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14 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A classic story, 29 Dec 2006
By Sergey Vasilev (Albany, USA) - See all my reviews
THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV, which is one of Dostoyevsky's all time best, perhaps the best, adds to make him perhaps the best writer of all times. The author came up with so many great ideas and characters that are so real to life even in their complex emotions and rationales that we relate to the characters as if we are in their heads. In the end, not only do we have a great story, we are also left with a beautifully written work of political, psychological, sociological, ethical and psychological thought that is very true not only to Russia, but to other lands and peoples as well.
The greatest soul writer of all times and great contributor to human psychology successfully created a beautiful and amazing dynamism between the Karamazov brothers that has been the core of many stories after involving siblings. There is the unreliable father, the old Fyodor Karamazov whose life dominates his sons and whose death casts a huge shadow on their future.

Sensual Alyosha who is the youngest of the Karamazov brothers is the main character of the story, and he is noted for his strong faith in god and humanity, deep kindness and sense of sacrifice.
Ivan the atheist has a sharp mind and is the critical analyzer who seeks for meaning in everything. He is skeptical and dwells more on rationale in his dealing with people and issues. In the end, his intellectual mind misleads him and opens the doors to the nightmares in his life.
Dmitry is the sensitive brother who has a strong consideration for anything living, Smerdyakov their half-brother, is the cunning illegitimate son of old Fyodor Karamazov and works as Fyodor's servant.

The characters of the brothers and the events of their lives made for the complex and fascinating story of exceptional proportions, where faith, meekness, atheism, indifference and slavery to negative instincts and impulses are often in conflict. Faith and atheism or disbelief in God is taken to epic proportions in Ivan's encounter with the devil.

Dostoevsky stated that, "when there is no God, all is permitted.". That assertion is reinforced in books like UNION MOUJIK,THE IDIOT and CRIME AND PUNISHMENT. The absence of God or lack of faith in man makes it possible for man to thrive in his worst animal instincts. Even when man starts with good intentions, the absence of faith usually derails him to the point where the good intentions are overshadowed by the negative effects of his actions. My conclusion is that this is a rare masterpiece.
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11 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Hard labour, 3 Aug 2007
By Mr. S. Miller "Page Turner" (Glasgow, UK) - See all my reviews
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The fact I owned this book for over ten years before reading it indicates how I was intimidated by it. I knew that the 900 pages would demand time and patience as well as sheer graft. But the novel is regularly cited as a true classic and so I gave up more accessible and appealing literature for the six weeks it took me to finish it.

If it's already sounding like a laborious exercise that's deliberate on my part. The characters and storyline are certainly strong enough to sustain the reader through much of the painstaking detail with which Dostoyevsky layers his story and there are many memorable passages. The story is, however, frequently interrupted by religious, political and social discourses much of which tended to be lengthy and turgid. That is ironic because serious critics rate the book so highly precisely because of the very passages which I found hard going!

Overall, I do feel the better for having read it, but, if you only have time for one monster classic, you would be far better off with Hugo's masterpiece, "Les Miserables".
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7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars the ultimate book, 14 Sep 2006
By Okan Koç "sensualist" (Istanbul) - See all my reviews
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the perfect tragedy - Nietzsche should have read this novel, I think he only read "notes from underground" - he describes it as the work of a conscientious Greek genius in his Letters- , it would certainly stimulate him further
Dostoevsky is important for the existentialist tradition and future literary figures such as Kafka
His contemporaries devoured his works - Charles Dickens, Victor Hugo others - and perhaps even despaired seeing how his work could not be excelled
Freud considers this book to be among the three - Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, Shakespeares' Hamlet, and Dostoevsky's brothers Karamazov and discusses how patricide is at the heart of these great tragedies
the pinnacle of achivement for the genius

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