Stalking the Behemoth: "the Brothers Karamazov," by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov
By Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1880
Reviewed by Chris Schahfer

A massive book, and not just because eight hundred pages, while not a patch on Proust, is fat. No, the Brothers Karamazov is full of huge ideas about how people operate, ideas of faith and society and cynicism and idealism and greed and selfishness. I mean, the criticism on this book, and just this book, mind, probably takes up more combined pages than the whole of Dostoevsky's oeuvre. There's a lot here, and that's bef...