Dostoevsky's 1880 Russian masterwork follows the turbulent Karamazov family as patriarch Fyodor's murder divides his four sons—each representing different philosophical approaches to faith, reason, and morality. This psychological fiction explores profound questions of guilt, redemption, and human nature through a gripping murder mystery that becomes a meditation on the existence of God. Translated by Constance Garnett.
Alexey Fyodorovitch Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov, a land owner well known in our district in his own day, and still remembered among us owing to his gloomy and tragic death, which happened thirteen years ago, and which I shall describe in its proper place. For the present I will only say that this “landowner”—for so we used to call him, although he hardly spent a day of his life on his own estate—was a strange type, yet one pretty frequently to be met with, a type abject and vicious and at the same time senseless. But he was one of those senseless persons who are very well capable of looking after their worldly affairs, and, apparently, after nothing else. Fyodor Pavlovitch, for instance, began with next to nothing; his estate was of the smallest; he ran to dine at other men’s tables, and fastened on them as a toady, yet at his death it appeared that he had …Continue reading →
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A Russian novelist who transformed personal suffering into literary masterpieces, this 19th-century writer explored the darkest corners of human psychology through works like Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov. His profound examination of guilt, redemption, and moral struggle established him as one of literature's greatest psychological realists. All works by Fyodor Dostoevsky →
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