![]() ![]() ![]() It is a spiritual drama of moral struggles concerning faith, doubt, and reason, set against a modernizing Russia. The Brothers Karamazov is a passionate philosophical novel set in 19th century Russia, that enters deeply into the ethical debates of God, free will, and morality. As the ensuing investigation and trial reveal the true identity of the murderer, Dostoyevsky’s dark masterwork evokes a world where the lines between innocence and corruption, good and evil blur, and everyone’s faith in humanity is tested. The murder of brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov changes the lives of his sons irrevocably Mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with his father immediately places him under suspicion for parricide Ivan, the intellectual, whose mental tortures drive him to breakdown the spiritual Alyosha, who tries to heal the family’s rifts and the shadowy figure of their bastard half-brother Smerdyakov. ![]()
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