The Brothers Karamazov, completed in November 1880 just two months before Dostoyevsky's death, displays both his mastery as a storyteller and his significance as a thinker. In this volume, Dr. Leatherbarrow shows that far from being merely a philosophical religious tract, The Brothers Karamazov is an enjoyable and accessible novel. He discusses its major themes, including atheism and belief, the nature of man, socialism and individualism, and the state of European civilization, focusing particulary on those themes of justice, order and disorder, in whose revolutionary treatment he sees the real significance of this literary landmark.
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"Leatherbarrow's synthesis of past critical achievement judiciously discriminates between factual commentary and interpretation, as well as between interpretation supported by evidence of Dostoevsky's documented or manifest intent, and interpretation generated by a critic's philosophy or idiosyncratic response to the text....Leatherbarrow's book will be a valuable teaching aid, but it is also a work well worth the literary scholar's time." Victor Terras, Slavic Review
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Far from being merely a philosophical religious tract, the work is shown to encompass such major themes as atheism and belief, the nature of man, socialism and individualism, and the state of European civilization, focusing particularly on the themes of justice, order and disorder.
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The Dostoyevsky who in November 1880, just two months before his death, so announced the completion of The Brothers Karamazov to N.A. Lyubimov, the associate editor of Russkii vestnik (The Russian Herald), was far removed from the young man who in the 1840s had gained fame as the author of tales of psychological analysis and had then suffered arrest, mock execution and Siberian exile for participation in an illegal political group. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
artistic picture, higher harmony, realistic art, mysterious visitor, realistic novel, final novel Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Fyodor Pavlovich, Ivan Karamazov, Raw Youth, Alyosha Karamazov, Anna Karenina, Golden Age, Catholic Church, Original Sin, Prince Myshkin, Ivan's Euclidean, Karamazov Companion, Western European New!
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The Dostoyevsky who in November 1880, just two months before his death, so announced the completion of The Brothers Karamazov to N.A. Lyubimov, the associate editor of Russkii vestnik (The Russian Herald), was far removed from the young man who in the 1840s had gained fame as the author of tales of psychological analysis and had then suffered arrest, mock execution and Siberian exile for participation in an illegal political group. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
artistic picture, higher harmony, realistic art, mysterious visitor, realistic novel, final novel Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Fyodor Pavlovich, Ivan Karamazov, Raw Youth, Alyosha Karamazov, Anna Karenina, Golden Age, Catholic Church, Original Sin, Prince Myshkin, Ivan's Euclidean, Karamazov Companion, Western European New!
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- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky on 11 pages
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- Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club) by Leo Tolstoy on 6 pages
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- The Cambridge Companion to Dostoevskii (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by W. J. Leatherbarrow on page 189, and Back Matter
- Comparative Criticism: Volume 16, Revolutions and Censorship by E. S. Shaffer in Back Matter
- Mann: Doctor Faustus (Landmarks of World Literature) by Michael Beddow in Front Matter
- Racine: Phdre (Landmarks of World Literature) by Edward D. James in Front Matter
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