The Brothers Karamazov

The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov, his three sons―Dmitri, Ivan, and Alyosha―and the “wicked and sentimental” Dmitri’s wife. Through the gripping events of their story, Dostoevsky portrays the whole of Russian life at the time: its social and spiritual striving. This award-winning translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky remains true to the verbal inventiveness of Dostoevsky’s prose, while preserving allusions to contemporary events that may now be obscure to readers. It is an achievement worthy of Dostoevsky’s last and greatest novel.