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A review by jakedegarie
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
5.0
Dostoevsky’s masterwork, The Brothers Karamazov, delves through the lives of three antithetical brothers and examines the lasting influences inherited from their morally corrupt father. The trio, together and apart, traverse paths of paradoxical belief, intense belief in, and outright denial of, God, mismatched love, greed and lust, lives of moral impoverishment, and psychological torment.
Finished months before the great writer’s death, the work is both long and precise, and the pages are so cluttered with text that one immediately feels intimidated, hopelessly lost in a sea of words. And why not? For Dostoevsky depicts dark reflections of tangled, miserable minds, while allowing speech free reign to tread endlessly onward.
But stay calm, let yourself be carried along. Admire the work as it unravels before you — and do not rush: Look for meanings both inherent and hidden; consider them, reject them; let them inform your being. One must allow Dostoevsky room to work, for grand is his vision. Many lifetimes of thought are revealed in this masterpiece, created by a mind linked to the past, alive in the present, and looking to the future.
Finished months before the great writer’s death, the work is both long and precise, and the pages are so cluttered with text that one immediately feels intimidated, hopelessly lost in a sea of words. And why not? For Dostoevsky depicts dark reflections of tangled, miserable minds, while allowing speech free reign to tread endlessly onward.
But stay calm, let yourself be carried along. Admire the work as it unravels before you — and do not rush: Look for meanings both inherent and hidden; consider them, reject them; let them inform your being. One must allow Dostoevsky room to work, for grand is his vision. Many lifetimes of thought are revealed in this masterpiece, created by a mind linked to the past, alive in the present, and looking to the future.