The Brothers Karamazov

Dostoevsky's last, most voluminous, and one of his most famous novels turns the reader to timeless moral and philosophical questions of sin, retribution, compassion, and mercy. The book, which the writer himself defined as "a novel about blasphemy and its refutation," was an attempt to "resolve the question of man," to "solve the mystery" of man, which, according to Dostoevsky, meant "to resolve the question of God." Through the prism of the history of the provincial Karamazov family, the author narrates the eternal struggle between the Divine and the diabolical in the human soul. One of the deepest reflections of Christian consciousness in world literature, "The Brothers Karamazov" became an object of paradoxical philosophical and psychoanalytic interpretations in the 20th century.