Brothers Karamazov

<b>Fyodor Dostoyevsky's powerful meditation on faith meaning and morality <i>The Brothers Karamazov</i> is translated with an introduction and notes by David McDuff in Penguin Classics.</b> <p/> 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 family's rifts; and the shadowy figure of their bastard half-brother Smerdyakov. As the ensuing investigation and trial reveal the true identity of the murderer Dostoyevsky's dark masterpiece evokes a world where the lines between innocence and corruption good and evil blur and everyone's faith in humanity is tested. <p/> This powerful translation of <i>The Brothers Karamazov</i> features and introduction highlighting Dostoyevsky's recurrent themes of guilt and salvation with a new chronology and further reading. <p/> <b>There is no writer who better demonstrates the contradictions and fluctuations of the creative mind than Dostoyevsky and nowhere more astonishingly than in <i>The Brothers Karamazov</i>.--Joyce Carol Oates</b> <p/><b>Dostoyevsky was the only psychologist from whom I had anything to learn: he belongs to the happiest windfalls of my life.--Friedrich Nietzsche</b> <p/><b>The most magnificent novel ever written.--Sigmund Freud</b>