The Brothers Karamazov
1880 novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Brothers Karamazov (Russian: Братья Карамазовы, Brat'ya Karamazovy, pronounced [ˈbratʲjə kərɐˈmazəvɨ]), also translated as The Karamazov Brothers, is the last novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. Dostoevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published as a serial in The Russian Messenger from January 1879 to November 1880. Dostoevsky died less than four months after its publication. It has been acclaimed as one of the supreme achievements in world literature.
Author | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
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Original title | Братья Карамазовы (Brat'ya Karamazovy) |
Country | Russia |
Language | Russian |
Genre | |
Publisher | The Russian Messenger (as serial) |
Publication date | 1879–80; separate edition 1880 |
Text | The Brothers Karamazov at Wikisource |
Set in 19th-century Russia, The Brothers Karamazov is a passionate philosophical novel that discusses questions of God, free will, and morality. It has also been described as a theological drama[citation needed] dealing with problems of faith, doubt, and reason in the context of a modernizing Russia, with a plot that revolves around the subject of patricide. Dostoevsky composed much of the novel in Staraya Russa, which inspired the main setting.[1]