The Brothers Karamazov
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| Rating | : | 4.38 (756 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B002S4SQKM |
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| Number of Pages | : | 427 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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It is a spiritual drama of moral struggles concerning faith, doubt, judgment, and reason, set against a modernizing Russia, with a plot which revolves around the subject of patricide. Since its publication, it has been acclaimed as one of the supreme achievements in world literature.. The Brothers Karamazov is a passionate philosophical novel set in 19th-century Russia, that enters deeply into the ethical debates of God, free will, and morality. The author died less than four months after its publication. Dostoyevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published as a serial in The Russian Messenger from January 1879 to November 1880. Dostoyevsky composed much of the novel in Staraya Russa, which inspired the main setting. The Brothers Karamazov, also translated as The Karamazov Brothers, is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky
''Dostoevsky is at once the most literary and compulsively readable of novelists we continue to regard as great The Brothers Karamazov stands as the culmination of his art -- his last, longest, richest, and most capacious book.'' --Washington Post Book World ''The Brothers Karamazov is the most magnificent novel ever written.'' --Sigmund Freud ''Heartily recommended to any reader who wishes to come as close to Dostoevsky's Russian as it is possible.'' --Joseph Frank, Princeton University ''The Brother Karamazovis the strongest novel Dostoevsky composed, and is where his genius should be soughthe seems to me to have a deeper relationship with Shakespeare than criticism so far has revealed.'' --Harold Bloom
This translation is too awkward for most readers Before you dedicate many hours to reading this masterpiece, you must be sure you select the appropriate translation for your reading style. The Pevear translation - although highly acclaimed - may make it difficult for most readers to grasp the essence of this beautiful story, and therefore I would almost always recommend the McDuff version ahead of the Pevear.The Brothers Karamazov presents the same challenge for every English translator; namely, Dostoevsky took pride in creating distinct voices and syntax for each of his characters, and most translations have sacrificed the syntax and voicing to make it more readable. "Complex and brilliant" according to LongLiveLibraries2Complex and brilliant LongLiveLibraries245 This novel was long, philosophical, and complex--and absolutely worth the amount of time I spent reading it. It turned out to be far more than just a mystery of who killed Fyodor, the morally debauched Karamazov patriarch. The Brothers Karamazov is also an intense character study, a love story, and--above all--a novel of ideas.Those who have read Dostoevsky's other works will see some familiar themes in this novel--themes of redemption, guilt, and suffering, as well as what drives people to heinous crimes such as murder. Religious questions are also explored in-depth, such as the existence of God and the ultimate sourc. 5. This novel was long, philosophical, and complex--and absolutely worth the amount of time I spent reading it. It turned out to be far more than just a mystery of who killed Fyodor, the morally debauched Karamazov patriarch. The Brothers Karamazov is also an intense character study, a love story, and--above all--a novel of ideas.Those who have read Dostoevsky's other works will see some familiar themes in this novel--themes of redemption, guilt, and suffering, as well as what drives people to heinous crimes such as murder. Religious questions are also explored in-depth, such as the existence of God and the ultimate sourc. Cary C. Dunlap said Best Ebook Version of My Favorite Novel. I have several editions/translations of this book, and this Kindle edition -- while it contains a few errors of the kind that are typical to ebook conversion -- is very good. The biography portion of the ebook is especially fraught with spelling/grammar errors, but that seems to be because of translation problems, not automatic conversion issues. To me it seems like a novice translator did the work on the biography information, and there are some problems with phrases and spelling. Still, not a huge deal at all.If you've never Dostoevsky, this Kindle version is a great place to start. The annotations are helpful and th