The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov
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"The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a novel published between 1879 and 1880. Set in 19th-century Russia, this passionate philosophical work explores profound questions of God, free will, and morality. The story revolves around the volatile Karamazov family: a disreputable father and his three sons—sensual Dmitri, intellectual Ivan, and idealistic Alyosha. As tensions escalate over inheritance and romantic entanglements, the novel delves into faith, doubt, and reason, with patricide at the heart of its dramatic plot.
About the author
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881) was a Russian novelist who wrote about guilt, faith and freedom as though a person's whole life could turn on an argument. Arrested at twenty-seven for belonging to a circle of liberal intellectuals, he was subjected to a mock execution and then sent to a Siberian prison camp for four years — an experience that rebuilt his politics and his religion and never left his fiction. His novels give ideas to people rather than to essays, which is why his murderers, gamblers and saints argue their positions so well. The major works are Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Demons and The Brothers Karamazov.