Бра́тья Карама́зовы
About this work
The final novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, first published as Bratya Karamazovy in 1879-80, and generally considered to be his masterpiece. It is the story of Fyodor Karamazov and his sons Alyosha, Dmitry, and Ivan. It is also a story of patricide, into the sordid unfolding of which Dostoyevsky introduces a love-hate struggle with profound psychological and spiritual implications. Throughout the whole novel there persists a search for faith, for God--the central idea of the work. The dramatization of Ivan's repudiation of God is concentrated in the famous "Legend of the Grand Inquisitor." A response to Ivan is contained in the preaching of the monk Zosima that the secret of universal harmony is not achieved by the mind but by the heart. --The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature.
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Subjects
- Crime and criminals
- Russian literature
- Fiction
- Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)
- Fiction, psychological
- Fathers and sons, fiction
- Brothers, fiction
- Fiction, family life, general
- Translations into English
- Social life and customs
- Manners and customs
- Fathers and sons