This is translated by Constance Garnett, with an introduction by A. D. P. Briggs. As Fyodor Karamazov awaits an amorous encounter, he is violently done to death. The three sons of the old debauchee are forced to confront their own guilt or complicity. Who will own to parricide? The reckless and passionate Dmitri? The corrosive intellectual Ivan? Surely not the chaste novice monk Alyosha? The search reveals the divisions which rack the brothers, yet paradoxically unite them. Around the writings of this one dysfunctional family Dostoevsky weaves a dense network of social, psychological and philosophical relationships. At the same time he shows - from the opening 'scandal' scene in the monastery to a personal appearance by an eccentric Devil - that his dramatic skills have lost nothing of their edge. "The Karamazov Brothers", completed a few months before Dostoevsky's death in 1881, remains for many the high point of his genius as novelist and chronicler of the modern malaise. It cast a long shadow over D. H. Lawrence, Thomas Mann, Albert Camus, and other giants of twentieth-century European literature.
DOSTOIEVSKI FIODOR M.
Fiódor Mijáilovich Dostoievski Moscú, 1821 - San Petersburgo, 1881 es uno de los mejores novelistas rusos de la historia. Educado por un padre alcohólico y déspota, tras la temprana muerte de su madre, estudió en la Escuela de Ingenieros de San Petersburgo. En 1849 fue condenado a muerte por colaborar con grupos liberales, sin embargo fue indultado horas antes de la ejecución. Sus escritos, extremadamente minuciosos, son profundos análisis psicológicos, tragedias de moralidad, apuntes de existencialismo, que diseccionan la sociedad del siglo XIX. De entre sus obras destacan: Pobres gentes 1846 , El doble 1846 , Humillados y ofendidos 1861 , Notas de invierno sobre impresiones deverano 1863 , Memorias del subsuelo 1864 , El jugador 1866 , Crimen y castigo 1866; Austral, 2011 , El idiota 1868 , El eterno marido 1870 Los endemoniados 1871-1872 , El adolescente 1875 , Los hermanos Karamazov 1880 .
