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Dostoyevsky's status as one of the Russian masters is fully deserved, and this is probably his greatest masterpiece, but it is a long book! I recommend this edition for its lively modern translation and excellent notes.
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What an incredible masterpiece! Five stars is not enough
Very well written. Alyosha is a great spiritual character from whom we can learn a lot. I enjoyed his lectures and those of people around him. But the main story was strange. By the end I was thinking, “what did I just read???” The murder mystery doesn’t kick in until like the last quarter of the book. The rest is Alyoshas spiritual life and the other brothers fighting with their dad and each other over women and owed inheritances and whatnot.
Then the murder mystery was so strange. People went ...more
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As great as this is, "Anna Karenina" is THE Great Russian novel, imo. "BK" is awesome, brilliant, and beautiful but what's left to say? And since PART TWO was never written, here goes! Ivan helps Dmitri escape from prison and hides him in Alexei's monastery. Alexei's sensuality results in his exile from the church, his repressed passions are so full of scandal he must disappear to America (Passion is always in Fashion in these massive Russian novels). Ivan marries and settles down to an average
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The Brothers Karamazov was written nearly 150 years back. But it feels surprisingly modern.
Dostoyevsky has woven a tale of three (or perhaps four) brothers with very distinct worldviews, in order to deal with issues of religion, faith, science, family, superstition, death, law and crime.
It is a dense work of philosophy written as fiction and is definitely not an easy read. However it's one of the better books that I have read in recent times. ...more
Dostoyevsky has woven a tale of three (or perhaps four) brothers with very distinct worldviews, in order to deal with issues of religion, faith, science, family, superstition, death, law and crime.
It is a dense work of philosophy written as fiction and is definitely not an easy read. However it's one of the better books that I have read in recent times. ...more
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