

Rebecca West considered it "the allegory for the world's maturity", but with children to the fore. The novel is also richly comic: the Russian Orthodox Church, the legal system, and even the authors most cherished causes and beliefs are presented with a note of irreverence, so that orthodoxy, and radicalism, sanity and madness, love and hatred, right and wrong are no longer mutually exclusive.

The dissolute landowner Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is murdered his sons - the atheist intellectual Ivan, the hot-blooded Dmitry, and the saintly novice Alyosha - are all at some level involved.īound up with this intense family drama is Dostoevsky's exploration of many deeply felt ideas about the existence of God, the question of human freedom, the collective nature of guilt, the disatrous consequences of rationalism.

His 1864novella,Notes from Underground, is considered to be one of the first works ofexistentialistliterature.Numerous literary critics rate him as one of the greatest novelists in all ofworld literature, as many of his works are considered highly influential masterpieces. His most acclaimed novels includeCrime and Punishment(1866),The Idiot(1869),Demons(1872), andThe Brothers Karamazov(1880). Dostoevsky's literary works explore thehuman conditionin the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes. About The Author : Fyodor Dostoevsky(1821 1881) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and journalist. It is atheological dramadealing with problems of faith, doubt, and reason in the context of a modernizing Russia, with a plot that revolves around the subject ofparticle.It has been acclaimed as one of the supreme achievements in world literature. Set in 19th-century Russia,Itis a passionatephilosophical novelthat enters deeply into questions of God, free will and mortality. Dostoevsky spent nearly two years writingThe Brothers Karamazov, which was published as a serial inThe Russian Messengerfrom January 1879 to November 1880. 984 About The Book : The Brothers Karamazov also translated asThe Karamazov Brothers, is the lastnovelbyRussianauthorFyodor Dostoevsky.
