The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky 1880

Devastation Rating

Emotionally Ruined
Russia faith guilt family

Our Take

Dostoevsky put everything he believed about God, guilt, and the capacity for good and evil into his final novel. Three brothers, one dead father, one act of parricide. The trial is less about who did it than about what we are all responsible for when we wanted something done.

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