![]() ![]() Dostoevsky published it serially from January 1879 to November 1880, not even four months before his death. Praised by many as a work of genius and criticized by others as a mouthpiece for Russian Orthodoxy, the novel often tops lists of the greatest novels of all time and is frequently referred to as Dostoevsky’s masterpiece. The Brothers Karamazov is therefore among the “golden age” Russian novels marked by both a consuming interest in philosophical mysteries and a disquiet with the effects of Western modernity on the human imagination. As the narrative follows an investigation of the father’s murder, each brother presents a different inflection of humanity-from passionate spiritualism to unyielding skepticism. The eponymous brothers are the four sons of the profligate Fyodor Karamazov. ![]()
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