The Karamazov brothers. Dostoevsky F.M.

The Karamazov brothers (1879–1880), the last, most voluminous and one of the most famous novels by F. M. Dostoevsky, address the reader to timeless moral and philosophical issues about sin, retribution, compassion and mercy. The book, which the writer himself defined as “a novel about blasphemy and his refutation” was an attempt to “solve the issue of a person”, “to unravel the secret” of a person, which, according to Dostoevsky, meant “to solve the issue of God”. Through the prism of the almost detective story about the brutal murder of the head of the provincial Karamazov family, the author tells of the eternal struggle of the divine and devilish in the human soul. One of the deepest experiments in the world literature of the reflection of Christian consciousness, the “brothers of the Karamazovs” became the object of paradoxical philosophical and psychoanalytic interpretations in the 20th century.