In 1880 Dostoevsky completed The Brothers Karamazov, the literary effort for which he had been preparing all his life. Compelling, profound, complex, it is the story of a patricide and of the four sons who each had a motive for murder: Dmitry, the sensualist, Ivan, the intellectual; Alyosha, the mystic; and twisted, cunning Smerdyakov, the […]
Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle of love, torn between two women??the notorious kept woman Nastasya and the pure Aglaia??both involved, in turn, with the corrupt, money-hungry Ganya. In the end, Myshkin??s honesty, goodness, and integrity are shown to be unequal to […]