📱 eBook en inglés THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV (SUMMARIZED EDITION)

THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV unfolds around the turbulent Karamazov household and the patricide of the licentious Fyodor Pavlovich, drawing Dmitri, Ivan, and the novice Alyosha—and the shadowy Smerdyakov—into a moral and judicial crucible. A courtroom drama frames debates on faith, freedom, and guilt, while the counsel of Elder Zosima and Ivans Grand Inquisitor distill theological and political polemic. Dostoevskys polyphonic, psychologically exact prose fuses tragic farce with metaphysical inquiry, situating the novel within late Russian realism and the spiritual crises of the 1870s. Composed near the end of Dostoevskys life and serialized in 1879–80, the novel distills experiences that shaped him: the trauma of a mock execution and Siberian penal exile, lifelong epilepsy, crushing debts, and the grief for his young son Alyosha. His Orthodox faith, sharpened against European rationalism and Russian nihilism, animates the books polemical energy and its humane, confessional candor. Readers seeking a novel that tests the limits of the modern conscience will find this an inexhaustible companion—equally a gripping mystery, a philosophical disputation, and a study of loves redemptive possibility. It rewards patient, reflective reading, and is essential for students of law, theology, psychology, and anyone curious about the spiritual foundations of modern literature.
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