(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Dostoevsky's towering
reputation as one of the handful of thinkers who forged the modern
sensibility has sometimes obscured the purely novelistic
virtues-brilliant characterizations, flair for suspense and
melodrama, instinctive theatricality-that made his work so
immensely popular in nineteenth-century Russia. "The Brothers
Karamazov," his last and greatest novel, published just before his
death in 1881, chronicles the bitter love-hate struggle between the
outsized Fyodor Karamazov and his three very different sons. It is
above all the story of a murder, told with hair-raising
intellectual clarity and a feeling for the human condition
unsurpassed in world literature. This award-winning translation by
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky-the definitive version in
English-magnificently captures the rich and subtle energies of
Dostoevsky's masterpiece.
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