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