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Article: Works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The Brothers Karamazov (1879-80)
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Dostoyevsky, Fydor
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
The Brothers Karamazov (1879-80)
This is the last and the greatest of his novels and one of the most
powerful works in world literature. Properly speaking, it is not a novel at
all, but a panorama of the human soul in relation to the forces and problems
that have afflicted the human mind from classical antiquity to the present
day.
Of the four central characters, the three brothers and their father each
represents a particular philosophy of life. The father, Fyodor, worships the
senses with little concern for anything else. Many readers see him as
Dostoyevsky's self-portrait. This is true only if we see in all the main
characters different ...