Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Publisher
Picador, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 845 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the "wicked and sentimental" Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons--the impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; and the healthy, red-cheeked young novice Alyosha. Through the gripping events of their story, Dostoevsky portrays the whole of Russian life, its social and spiritual...
4) The Idiot
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c 2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (166 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on Dostoyevsky's fable of a holy fool, this story which takes place in Hokkaido in the winter is about a man who returns home after a stay in an asylum. He is being drawn toward Christianity, his antagonist is an anarchist.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Crippled by guilt and paranoia after committing a murder he thinks is just, Roderick Raskolnikov is torn between the detective investigating the murder and the woman he saved, who now wants to save his soul.
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Raskolnikov commits murder. He then must deal both with the police, and his own guilty conscience. Determined to overreach his humanity and assert his untrammelled individual will, Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg of the Tsars, commits an act of murder and theft and sets into motion a story which, for its excrutiating suspense, its atmospheric vividness, and its profundity of characterization and vision, is almost...
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The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky's crowning achievement, is a tale of patricide & family rivalry that embodies the moral & spiritual dissolution of an entire society (Russia in the 1870s). It created a national furor comparable only to the excitement stirred by the publication, in 1866, of Crime & Punishment. To Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov captured the quintessence of Russian character in all its exaltation, compassion, & profligacy. Significantly,...