The
Brothers Karamazov (Russian: ?????? ??????????) is the final novel by
the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, and is generally considered the
culmination of his life's work. The book portrays a parricide in which
each of a murdered man's sons share a varying degree of complicity. The
Brothers Karamazov is a passionate philosophical novel that explores
deep into the ethical debates of God, free will, and morality. It is a
spiritual drama of moral struggles concerning faith, doubt, reason, and
modern Russia. Since its publication, it has been acclaimed all over the
world by thinkers as diverse as Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, and
Pope Benedict XVI as one of the supreme achievements in literature.
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