The Brothers Karamazov Av Fyodor Dostoyevsky

<b>Fyodor Dostoyevsky''s powerful meditation on faith, meaning and morality, <i>The Brothers Karamazov</i> is translated with an introduction and notes by David McDuff in Penguin Classics.</b> <br><br> 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; and the shadowy figure of their bastard half-brother Smerdyakov. As the ensuing investigation and trial reveal the true identity of the murderer, Dostoyevsky''s dark masterpiece evokes a world where the lines between innocence and corruption, good and evil, blur and everyone''s faith in humanity is tested. <br><br> This powerful translation of <i>The Brothers Karamazov</i> features and introduction highlighting Dostoyevsky''s recurrent themes of guilt and salvation, with a new chronology and further reading.<br><br><br> <b>“There is no writer who better demonstrates the contradictions and fluctuations of the creative mind than Dostoyevsky, and nowhere more astonishingly than in <i>The Brothers Karamazov</i>.”—Joyce Carol Oates</b><br><br><b>“Dostoyevsky was the only psychologist from whom I had anything to learn: he belongs to the happiest windfalls of my life.”—Friedrich Nietzsche</b><br><br><b>“The most magnificent novel ever written.”—Sigmund Freud</b>