 The first page of the first edition of The Brothers Karamazov | |
| Author | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
|---|---|
| Original title | Братья Карамазовы (Brat'ya Karamazovy) |
| Translator | Isabel Florence Hapgood (1905) Constance Garnett (1912) David Magarshack (1958) Andrew R. MacAndrew (1970) Julius Katzer (1980) Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (1990) David McDuff (1993) Ignat Avsey (1994) Michael R. Katz (2023) Michael R. Katz (2023) David Gildea (2024) |
| Language | Russian |
| Genre | Detective novel |
| Publisher | The Russian Messenger (as serial) |
Publication date | 1879–80; separate edition 1880 |
| Publication place | Russia |
Published in English | 1905 |
| 891.733 | |
| LC Class | PG3325-3328 |
| Text | The Brothers Karamazov at Wikisource |
The Brothers Karamazov (Russian: Бра́тья Карама́зовы, Brát'ya Karamázovy, pronounced [ˈbratʲjə kərɐˈmazəvɨ]), also translated as The Karamazov Brothers, is the last novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. Dostoevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published as a serial in The Russian Messenger from January 1879 to November 1880. Dostoevsky died less than four months after its publication. It has been acclaimed as one of the supreme achievements in world literature.
Set in 19th-century Russia, The Brothers Karamazov is a passionate philosophical novel that discusses questions of God, free will, and morality. It has also been described as a theological drama[1] dealing with problems of faith, doubt, and reason in the context of a modernizing Russia, with a plot that revolves around the subject of patricide. Dostoevsky composed much of the novel in Staraya Russa, which inspired the main setting.[2]
- ^ "The Brothers Karamazov and the Faith of Fyodor Dostoevsky". By Faith. Retrieved 3 June 2024.
- ^ Piretto, Gian Piero (1986). "Staraia Russa and Petersburg; Provincial Realities and Metropolitan Reminiscences in The Brothers Karamazov". Dostoevsky Studies. 7. Archived from the original on 10 November 2013.