The Brothers Karamazov

44 hrs. 0 min.

Classics

Language Russian

Author Fyodor Dostoevsky

Narrator Alexey Bagdasarov

Description

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky’s “The Brothers Karamazov” is the pinnacle of the writer’s work, one of his most famous novels, included in “Dostoevsky’s great five-book series.”

We are presented with an “intellectual detective story”—the history of a family with complex internal ties and spiritual quests. Psychological twists, human dramas, and numerous plot lines woven into the main narrative—everything is contained in a novel whose central issue is the question of God and the immortality of the soul. At the center of the story, as always with Dostoevsky, is a person tormented by doubts, torn apart by passions, craving love, power, and money—who swings from good to evil and from evil to good, searching for his own path and his own faith.

The novel had a powerful impact on world culture, contemporary philosophy, and literature, and it became the basis for dozens of film adaptations.