Fyodor Dostoyevsky's powerful meditation on faith meaning and morality The Brothers Karamazov is translated with an introduction and notes by David McDuff in Penguin Classics. . When brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov is murdered the lives of his sons are changed irrevocably: Mitya the sensualist whose bitter rivalry with his father immediately places him under suspicion for parricide; Ivan the intellectual whose mental tortures drive him to breakdown; the spiritual Alyosha who tries to heal the