The brothers karamarov
The Brothers Karamazov, commonly known as The Karamazov Brothers, is the final book written by Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky. It is also known by its Russian title, рат арамаoв, Brat'ya Karamazovy. The Brothers Karamazov, which Dostoevsky spent nearly two years composing, was serialized in The Russian Messenger from January 1879 to November 1880. Less than four months after its release, Dostoevsky passed away.
The Brothers Karamazov is a passionate philosophical novel that delves deeply into issues of God, free will, and morality. It is set in 19th-century Russia. It is a theological play with a patricide-centered plot that deals with issues of religion, doubt, and reason in the context of a modernizing Russia. Much of the story was written by Dostoevsky at Staraya Russa, which inspired the main setting. It has been acclaimed as one of the supreme achievements in world literature. Dostoevsky discusses a "literary work that has subtly and involuntarily been taking shape within me during these two years of writing the Diary" in the Writer's Diary piece "To the Reader" from October 1877. The Brothers Karamazov would go into deeper detail on some of the topics and concepts that were covered in The Diary. Patricide, maintaining law and order, and various social issues are some of these.
A personal tragedy influenced the writing of The Brothers Karamazov: in May 1878, Dostoevsky's 3-year-old son Alyosha passed away from epilepsy, a malady he inherited from his father. The book is characterized by the author's anguish. Dostoevsky gave the protagonist the name Alyosha and gave him the traits he most desired and admired. His loss is also reflected in the story of Captain Snegiryov and his young son Ilyusha. The death of his son brought Dostoevsky to the Optina Monastery later that year. There he found inspiration for several aspects of The Brothers Karamazov, though at the time he intended to write a novel about childhood instead. Parts of the biographical section of Zosima's life are based on "The Life of the Elder Leonid", a text he found at Optina and copied "almost word for word.
Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Published: 1880
