Kulturka

The Brothers Karamazov

The murder of brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov changes the lives of his sons irrevocably: Mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rival ry 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 Smerdya kov. As the ensuing investigation and trial reveal the true identity of the murderer, Dostoyevsky?s dark masterwork evokes a world w here the lines between innocence and corruption, good and evil blur, and everyone?s faith in humanity is tested.

• author: Fiodor Dostojewski