The Brothers Karamazov

by Fydor Dostoevsky | Literature & Fiction |
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Registered by GABAGirl of Louisville, Kentucky USA on 2/24/2009
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Journal Entry 1 by GABAGirl from Louisville, Kentucky USA on Tuesday, February 24, 2009
From the back:
"Dostoyevsky's last, monumental novel has a simple story for its narrative. And old profligate, Fyodor Karamazov, is murdered and his oldest son is tried and convicted for the crime. All the sons of the Karamazov family, however, each in his own way, feel complicity and the need to atone for their part in the death of the old man. We have a murder, all the more terrible in that it is patricide, with the events that inexorably lead to it and cause it; we see the inescapable consequences of guilt and retribution. But behind these events is also the author's final and most massive presentation of the beliefs and experiences he had developed all through his work, particularly in his five major novels which began with Crime and Punishment, in 1866, and ended with The Brothers Karamazov, completed in November 1880, just three months before his death."

This is the complete and unabridged version.

Journal Entry 2 by GABAGirl from Louisville, Kentucky USA on Wednesday, February 25, 2009
I picked this up at a used book store, fully intending to expand my horizons in the direction of classic literature that was not required in college lit. I just don't have the time to devote to this now...sending along to someone else, and I will find another copy when I have time to read.
:)

Journal Entry 3 by GABAGirl from Louisville, Kentucky USA on Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Sending to jennannej. Enjoy!

Journal Entry 4 by jennannej from Coronado, California USA on Saturday, March 7, 2009
I have heard this book recommended so much, that I just had to find a copy. Come to find, my local library here in Columbus, Nebraska has NO Dostoyevsky! They are severely lacking in their Russian novelists (though they DO have Anna Karenina, which I read last year).

So thank you very much to GABAGirl for sending this to me!


Journal Entry 5 by jennannej at Coronado, California USA on Wednesday, October 13, 2010
It has been a long road, but I've finally finished this novel. Russian lit is such a bear!

I began this book last winter or spring! Read it on coffee and lunch breaks from work. Small doses worked the best for me with this type of book. There is so much language that it takes a while to digest and really get down to the root of what is going on. I'm not much of a fan of Russian lit. I've read a few big 'uns and haven't been particularly impressed with them. But I HAVE read them. This was recommended many many times in the book Indelible Ink, a collection of essays on the 3 most influential books in each of the authors' lives.

Thanks again for sending this book my way!

Journal Entry 6 by jennannej at Little Free Library - Details In Notes in San Diego, California USA on Sunday, February 26, 2017

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