BOOK: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Language Russian | Saint Petersburg 2023

Summary of the book "The Brothers Karamazov"
The last, the most voluminous and one of the most famous novels by F. M. Dostoevsky draws the reader to timeless moral and philosophical questions about sin, retribution, compassion and mercy. The book, which the writer himself defined as "a novel about blasphemy and its refutation," was an attempt to "solve the question of man," to "unravel the mystery" of man, which, according to Dostoevsky, meant "to solve the question of God." Through the prism of the history of the provincial Karamazov family, the author tells about the eternal struggle of the Divine and the diabolical in the human soul. One of the most profound experiments in the world literature on the reflection of Christian consciousness, the Brothers Karamazov became the object of paradoxical philosophical and psychoanalytic interpretations in the twentieth century.