The Brothers Karamazov By Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Paperback, 2003)

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky's powerful meditation on faith meaning & morality The Brothers Karamazov is translated with an introduction & notes by David Mc Duff in Penguin Classics 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; & the shadowy figure of their bastard half-brother Smerdyakov As the ensuing investigation & trial reveal the true identity of the murderer Dostoyevsky's dark masterpiece evokes a world where the lines between innocence & corruption good & evil blur & everyone's faith in humanity is tested This powerful translation of The Brothers Karamazov features & introduction highlighting Dostoyevsky's recurrent themes of guilt & salvation with a new chronology & further reading Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) was born in Moscow From 1849-54 he lived in a convict prison & in later years his passion for gambling led him deeply into debt His other works available in Penguin Classics include Crime & Punishment The Idiot & Demons If you enjoyed The Brothers Karamazov you might like Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls also available in Penguin Classics' There is no writer who better demonstrates the contradictions & fluctuations of the creative mind than Dostoyevsky & nowhere more astonishingly than in The Brothers Karamazov' Joyce Carol Oates' Dostoyevsky was the only psychologist from whom I had anything to learn he belongs to the happiest windfalls of my life' Friedrich Nietzsche' The most magnificent novel ever written' Sigmund Freud