Brothers Karamazov
Chapter 1 of 96 01 - Book 1 Chapter 1 - Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov
- Running time
- 37 h 55 min
- Language
- English
- Readers
- AmyG, Anna Simon, Ashley Candland, Bob Neufeld, Bob Sherman and 22 others
- Translated by
- Constance Garnett
Chapters
About this recording
The Brothers Karamazov (Russian: Братья Карамазовы) 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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