The Brothers Karamazov (Bratya Karamazovy)

Fyodor Dostoevsky's final, most voluminous, and one of his most famous novels addresses timeless moral and philosophical questions about sin, retribution, compassion, and mercy. The book, which the writer himself defined as 'a novel about blasphemy and its refutation,' was an attempt to 'solve the question of man,' to 'unravel the mystery' of man, which, according to Dostoevsky, meant 'solving the question of God.' Through the prism of a detective story about the brutal murder of the head of the provincial Karamazov family, the author narrates the eternal struggle between the Divine and the diabolical in the human soul. One of the most profound reflections of Christian consciousness in world literature, 'The Brothers Karamazov' became the object of paradoxical philosophical and psychoanalytic interpretations in the 20th century.