Fyodor Dostoevsky

Novelist whose late books take the structure of an argument: the moral question is set up, walked around, and tested through characters who are also positions.

Works

• 1880

  Novel

  The Brothers Karamazov

  Dostoevsky's last novel. A patricide framing a debate about faith, freedom, and moral responsibility, conducted between three brothers who are also three positions on the question of how to live.