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The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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.

In Res

The Grand Inquisitor chapter is the part most often cited; the part to read alongside it is Zosima's life, which is the answer Dostoevsky offers to it. The book argues both sides honestly, which is rare.

Subjects

  • moral philosophy
  • faith
  • freedom
  • guilt
  • the problem of evil

Editions

  • 2002

    Paperback

    Farrar, Straus and Giroux· English· 824 pp.

    ISBN-13 9780374528379