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The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Start date: September 23, 2012

Finish date: December 30, 2012

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Jan 01, 2020 Sofija Popović rated it it was amazing

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Jun 15, 2021 Greg rated it it was amazing

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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 ...more

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Mar 25, 2019 Ujjwal Kad rated it it was amazing

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

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