The Brothers Karamazov

The last, largest, and one of the most famous novels of F.M. Dostoevsky invites the reader to timeless moral and philosophical questions about sin, retribution, compassion, and mercy. The book, which the author himself defined as "a novel about blasphemy and its refutation," was an attempt to "solve the question of man," to "decipher the mystery" of man, which, according to Dostoevsky, meant "to solve the question of God." Through the lens of the story of the provincial Karamazov family, the author narrates the eternal struggle between the Divine and the devilish in the human soul. One of the deepest reflections of Christian consciousness in world literature, THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV became, in the 20th century, the object of paradoxical philosophical and psychoanalytic interpretations.