The Brothers Karamazov

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The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel, published just before his death in 1881, chronicles the bitter love-hate struggle between the outsized Fyodor Karamazov and his three very different sons. It is above all the story of a murder, told with hair-raising intellectual clarity and a feeling for the human condition unsurpassed in world literature. Dostoevsky's towering reputation as one of the handful of thinkers who forged the modern sensibility has sometimes obscured the purely novelistic virtues-brilliant characterizations, flair for suspense and melodrama, instinctive theatricality-that made his work so immensely popular in nineteenth-century Russia. This award-winning translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky-the definitive version in English-magnificently captures the rich and subtle energies of Dostoevsky's masterpiece. (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)

Book Details

ISBN13 9780679410034
ISBN10 0679410031
Series/Work OL10432709W View on OpenLibrary
Publisher Everyman's Library
Pages 796
Language ENG
Created At January 30, 2025
Updated At January 30, 2025
Last OL update January 18, 2025

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