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The Brothers Karamazov
Escrito por Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Narrado por Constantine Gregory
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a titanic figure among the world’s great authors, and The Brothers Karamazov is often hailed as his finest novel. A masterpiece on many levels, it transcends the boundaries of a gripping murder mystery to become a moving account of the battle between love and hate, faith and despair, compassion and cruelty, good and evil.
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The Brothers Karamazov
Escrito por Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Narrado por Constantine Gregory
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a titanic figure among the world’s great authors, and The Brothers Karamazov is often hailed as his finest novel. A masterpiece on many levels, it transcends the boundaries of a gripping murder mystery to become a moving account of the battle between love and hate, faith and despair, compassion and cruelty, good and evil.
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Dostoevsky at his best. Each character is a case study of what it means to be human.
Rating: 5I loved this book! Don't ask me to sumarize it, because I couldn't. It's the story of three brothers who all took different paths to deal with their dead beat dad.
Rating: 3I hadn't read this novel in years, but I loved it once again. The chapter on the "Grand Inquisitor" has particular resonance in these days where so-called "Christians" are claiming to act in the name of their god...
Rating: 5Obviously an astonishingly good, if extremely hard, book. Along with Anna Karenina, I want to re-read it immediately.
Rating: 5Back to the Classics Reading Challenge 2017
Category: Russian Classic
This book took me a little while to get into, but once I got through the first few chapters, I was hooked! This is a long, philosophically dense book, but do not let that deter you. It is anything, but boring, and it will make you think. The main conflict in the novel is Faith vs Doubt. The characters are so dynamic that I believed they were real people. Definitely take your time reading this one. I read it in two months, and there is so much to it that I want to read it again. I think I will read a different translation every time. I actually regret that I can't read it in Russian. I would love to experience this novel in it's original glory.
Rating: 5Category: Russian Classic
This book took me a little while to get into, but once I got through the first few chapters, I was hooked! This is a long, philosophically dense book, but do not let that deter you. It is anything, but boring, and it will make you think. The main conflict in the novel is Faith vs Doubt. The characters are so dynamic that I believed they were real people. Definitely take your time reading this one. I read it in two months, and there is so much to it that I want to read it again. I think I will read a different translation every time. I actually regret that I can't read it in Russian. I would love to experience this novel in it's original glory.
I confess this would probably get a higher rating if I'd ever finished it.
Rating: 2It took me a year or so to finish this- but I'm so glad I did. Though I took a long time to understand and warm up to the characters, they are brilliantly vivid and alive. All through the book I tried to place myself among the Karamazov brothers but found a piece of each in me. Ivan the intellectual, Alyosha the monk, and Mitya the hedonist; the brothers are magnificently crafted archetypes. The book made me think a lot and I believe I'll be pondering over it for a long time after.
Rating: 5This is an amazing, transcending book. Although I preferred the first third of it to the last, I completely recognize the scope and intensity of the prose. The characters are vivid and vital. I was very pleased reading it.
Rating: 4I found it tougher to get through than his other works. But the scene where Jesus comes back to visit the church officials was amazing.
Rating: 5Brilliant and enthralling examination of the brothers with a thoroughly Russian feel.
Rating: 5This is one of the few books of Dostojevski that still are readable. And what a feast! This book is as "grand" as much of the other great work of D. but, at least here you can find a story that you can follow till the end. And what a beautifull story, thrilling till the end, and touching the very escence of being human.Is eigenlijk een van de weinige boeken van Dostojevski die nog echt overeind blijft, maar dan wel ineens een topper (en een klepper). Het is even breedvoerig (zoniet nog meer) dan de anderen, maar er steekt een verhaallijn in die tot op het eind wordt gevolgd. Stilistisch bovendien prachtig breeduit vertellend. De figuren worden bijna allemaal goed uitgewerkt. Aljosja is duidelijk de hoofdfiguur. En natuurlijk is het verhaal van de Groot-Inquisiteur een klassieker, zij het dat de slavofiele inslag ons westerlingen erg bevreemd.Eerste keer gelezen toen ik 17 jaar was; ik was onmiddellijk gegrepen.
Rating: 5This is one of the few books of Dostojevski that still are readable. And what a feast! This book is as "grand" as much of the other great work of D. but, at least here you can find a story that you can follow till the end. And what a beautifull story, thrilling till the end, and touching the very escence of being human.Is eigenlijk een van de weinige boeken van Dostojevski die nog echt overeind blijft, maar dan wel ineens een topper (en een klepper). Het is even breedvoerig (zoniet nog meer) dan de anderen, maar er steekt een verhaallijn in die tot op het eind wordt gevolgd. Stilistisch bovendien prachtig breeduit vertellend. De figuren worden bijna allemaal goed uitgewerkt. Aljosja is duidelijk de hoofdfiguur. En natuurlijk is het verhaal van de Groot-Inquisiteur een klassieker, zij het dat de slavofiele inslag ons westerlingen erg bevreemd.Eerste keer gelezen toen ik 17 jaar was; ik was onmiddellijk gegrepen.
Rating: 5Story of faith and doubt. It also is a story of Russia and the Russian peasant. There is a lot of contrasts in the book. Ivan and Alyosha are opposites. One a man of faith and the other a man of doubts. Dimitri the first born son is a wild, reactive man who is loud in his abusive threats but really in the middle between his two brothers. It is a story of Russia, a story of a dysfunctional family and a story of faith and doubt. I rate it 5 stars because it is very good. I liked Crime and Punishment a bit more but the author considers this his best book. It deserves a reread someday.
Rating: 5Well it took me long enough but I finally finished; I did like the writing and the story was well thought out but was sometimes just tooooooooo drawn out for me. My favorite part was actually the characterizations.
Rating: 5Welcome to crazy town.
Rating: 4Everyone has of course heard that this is a great book, and a classic. I was not aware that it was a crime and judicial procedural novel as well. Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov had three sons, the eldest, Dmitry (also Mitya) by his first wife, and Ivan and Alexey by his second. Fyodor is described as muddle-headed, but cunning. Dmitry, hot-headed and impulsive, thrown out by his father at a young age and raised as an army officer, returns to claim his inheritance, which has been spent, and thus sets the plot going. Ivan is the second oldest, and in the course of the book seems to have less of a role, although he is the author of the "Grand Inquisitor" story, a famous speculation on what the inquisition would have done if Christ himself had appeared in their jurisdiction. Ivan is a free thinker, but refuses to do his father's bidding on a commercial matter, and returns in the course of Dmitry's trial. Alexey is the saintly one, initially a novice at a monastery in the region, and throughout the novel a kind soul, achieving a redemption among poor children at the end. The father, Fyodor, is murdered, suspicion immediately rests on Dmitry, and he is convicted, although we learn that a puffed up servant was the killer. Each of the brothers, their lovers, the servants and monks, the lawyers at the trial, and the townspeople are exquisitely described, and I felt like I was living in the village with the Karamazov family. Dostoyesvsky is also a philosopher, and keen to comment on politics, so there are extensive asides, but the story of the murder and the trial are always driving the plot. I enjoyed about 2 weeks of steady reading, taking advantage of long airplane flights, to finish the book.
Rating: 4"But what is there to wonder at, what is there so peculiarly horrifying in it for us? We are so accustomed to such crimes! That's what's so horrible, that such dark deeds have ceased to horrify us. What ought to horrify us is that we are so accustomed to it . . ."A recent speech by President Obama? No. This is from Dostoyevsky's THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV, published in 1880. I don't know why I never got around to reading it, but I'm glad I finally did. There are some absolutely brilliant passages in it. Read it carefully and it will make you think more deeply about philosophy, religion, motives, and human nature.
Rating: 5Well, to me, it seems a bit ridiculous to even attempt a review of this novel. When review has come to represent observations and criticisms or plot re-hashings, there really seems to be little I, or anyone for that matter, could say about The Brothers Karamazov that isn't already known or hasn't already been said by someone wiser and abler. If I were brilliant, I could share a spur-of-the-moment haiku that appropriately captures my feelings for this story. But I'm not. Brilliant, that is. So how about this: it's Russian, it's rich and it's revered. Read it.
Rating: 4Great story—one of the best of world literature , and read by a great reader.
Rating: 5My first listen of this great author.
Gregory is a superb Narrator and look forward to more from Fydor.
Up next The Idiot then perhaps Crime and Punishment.
37 hours flew by and the book with all the human frailties is as relevant today as 100 years ago.
Bravo!.
Rating: 5Gregory is a superb Narrator and look forward to more from Fydor.
Up next The Idiot then perhaps Crime and Punishment.
37 hours flew by and the book with all the human frailties is as relevant today as 100 years ago.
Bravo!.
There's just something gorgeous about the language in Dostoyevsky. Even when the characters are insane and unpredictable, and you can never quite be sure what they are going to do next.
Rating: 4So expressively read, this classic came alive for me.
Rating: 5A masterpiece! The reader Constantin is amazing! Highly recommended!
Rating: 5A well-done Russian soap opera with philosophy and religion.
Rating: 5I read this while in high school, with no real context for it (beyond the other Dostoyevsky, Turgenev, etc that I was also reading), so I'm sure I missed huge swathes of it. Nevertheless, I really liked it. I wish he'd edited a bit, though--40 pages for one monologue seems a bit much, particularly when it's then answered by ANOTHER 40 pages by his companion.
Rating: 3I admit I did not finish this book. But I did read about 2/3 of the book (and all of the Cliff's Notes). I appreciate Dostoyevsky's work but he spends so much time telling us what he is going to tell us, it just drove me crazy. Still, he is a master of the psychological novel. I highly recommend [Crime and Punishment] instead.
Rating: 3Aye yi yi.
I didn't love it. It took me 2 months and 3 days to read this puppy.
Am I glad I finished? Yes
Will I re-read it some day? No way
The best parts of this book are when characters are doing actual things, and when Dostoyevsky describes Russia and Russian things and "the Russian way". Sometimes he has his characters do this, sometime the narrator. I feel like I learned a lot about Russia after the serfs were emancipated (and about how that emancipation affected everyone). I was shocked to read that trials were by jury. (Actually, I think I might just look that up, because I just can't believe it was true.)
The worst parts are the long-winded philosophical/religious discussions/arguments that go on amongst the characters. Soooo tiring. I know nothing about the Russian Orthodox church (let alone about that church in the 19th century), so it all just left me tired and bored.
Also, the women. The women are ridiculous. The scream, they cry, they beg, they fight, they are helpless, etc etc etc. With the exception of Katya, they also seem unable to make any decision on their own. There are so many types of men in this book, but the women are all slight variations of the same.
Rating: 3I didn't love it. It took me 2 months and 3 days to read this puppy.
Am I glad I finished? Yes
Will I re-read it some day? No way
The best parts of this book are when characters are doing actual things, and when Dostoyevsky describes Russia and Russian things and "the Russian way". Sometimes he has his characters do this, sometime the narrator. I feel like I learned a lot about Russia after the serfs were emancipated (and about how that emancipation affected everyone). I was shocked to read that trials were by jury. (Actually, I think I might just look that up, because I just can't believe it was true.)
The worst parts are the long-winded philosophical/religious discussions/arguments that go on amongst the characters. Soooo tiring. I know nothing about the Russian Orthodox church (let alone about that church in the 19th century), so it all just left me tired and bored.
Also, the women. The women are ridiculous. The scream, they cry, they beg, they fight, they are helpless, etc etc etc. With the exception of Katya, they also seem unable to make any decision on their own. There are so many types of men in this book, but the women are all slight variations of the same.
SPOILERS. On Mar 6, 1956, my comment: "Reading in Brothers Karamazov. Elder Zossima has just died. Now I reckon we'll return to the brothers, after a diversion concening Zossima. Dmitri is set to do something terrible." On Mar 11: "The Brothers Karamazov is enthralling. The picture drawn of Kolya Krassatin, a 13-year-old prodigy. is wondrous. Whether Mitya will be convicted I don't know. Did Ivan maybe kill his father? I don't know--I'm sure Mitya didn't. The story has been consistently excellent for chapters now." On Mar 13: "Smerdyakov has said he did it! This, in conversation with Ivan. Dmitri's trial is tomorrow, and Smerdyakov is sure Ivan won't tell on him, and even if he does, Smerdykov is sure no one will believe him. Dmitri, after knocking on the window, and after Fyodor screamed, ran away. Grigory ran after him and got hit in the head by Dmitri. Smerdyakov, who was shamming a epilectic fit, heard Fyodor was still alive so he went to him, knocked, and was admitted, and Smerdyakov killed him with a paper weight, and took the 3000 rubles. Grigory says the door was open, but he just imagines this, though it is a key thing in the case against Dmitri. Now the thing remains--will Ivan turn Smerdyakov in, and will they believe Ivan even if he does?" On Mar 16: "Read some in Brothers Karamazov. Mitya (Dmitri) will apparently be convicted. Katarina has produced the implicatory letter Dmitri wrote her a couple days before the murder. Katerina did this because Ivan testified of his talk with Smerydayev before the latter's suicide," On Mar 18: "Finished the book. Dmitri was convicted by the jury despite the eloquence of his defense counsel. Katerina was making plans for his escape as the book ended. 'Twas a great book, and I enjoyed most of it. It was long-winded and boring at the beginnng and the long speeches at the end held not my interest. Neither did the convoluted meanderings of the peculiar Russian minds. The part I liked best was the story of Katyn and Ilyusha, and the dog, etc. That was genuinely pathetic, touching and inspiring.
Rating: 5Boy, I found Fyodor Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov" to be a really tough read. (I'm currently working my way through Proust and those novels were conquered much faster than this one.) The prose is really dense and Dostoevsky penchant for repeating made this a difficult read for me.That said, I did enjoy the story of three brothers, Dmitry, Ivan and Aloysha, who traveled very different paths in life after rejection by their father. The father is murdered and Dmitry is accused and the case moves right along to trial. It's an interesting book. I didn't like it as much as other works by Dostoevsky, which I read in college when I had professors pointing out the threads that paralleled what was going on in society as the time. This book felt more like an interesting story.
Rating: 4I am one who believes this is a classic that stands the test of time. A wonderful story about religion, about good and evil, about family. Yes, the author digresses from the main story; today, such a manuscript would undoubtedly be edited down. But we would then miss so many wonderful, thought-provoking ideas about human nature. Worth reading.
Rating: 5