Lectures on Dostoevsky

Lectures on Dostoevsky
Title Lectures on Dostoevsky PDF eBook
Author Joseph Frank
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 254
Release 2019-12-17
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0691178968

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Poor Folk -- The Double -- The House of the Dead -- Notes from Underground -- Crime and Punishment -- The Idiot -- The Brothers Karamazov -- Appendix I: Selected Film Adaptations of Dostoevsky's Novels -- Appendix II: "Joseph Frank's Dostoevsky" by David Foster Wallace.

Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov

Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov
Title Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov PDF eBook
Author Julian W Connolly
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Pages 173
Release 2013-02-14
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1623562155

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Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov is unquestionably one of the greatest works of world literature. With its dramatic portrayal of a Russian family in crisis and its intense investigation into the essential questions of human existence, the novel has had a major impact on writers and thinkers across a broad range of disciplines, from psychology to religious and political philosophy. This proposed reader's guide has two major goals: to help the reader understand the place of Dostoevsky's novel in Russian and world literature, and to illuminate the writer's compelling and complex artistic vision. The plot of the novel centers on the murder of the patriarch of the Karamazov family and the subsequent attempt to discover which of the brothers bears responsibility for the murder, but Dostoevsky's ultimate interests are far more thought-provoking. Haunted by the question of God's existence, Dostoevsky uses the character of Ivan Karamazov to ask what kind of God would create a world in which innocent children have to suffer, and he hoped that his entire novel would provide the answer. The design of Dostoevsky's work, in which one character poses questions that other characters must try to answer, provides a stimulating basis for reader engagement. Having taught university courses on Dostoevsky's work for over twenty years, Julian W. Connolly draws upon modern and traditional approaches to the novel to produce a reader's guide that stimulate the reader's interest and provides a springboard for further reflection and study.

The Grand Inquisitor

The Grand Inquisitor
Title The Grand Inquisitor PDF eBook
Author Fyodor Dostoevsky
Publisher Lindhardt og Ringhof
Pages 34
Release 2021-12-06
Genre Fiction
ISBN 8726502240

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‘The Grand Inquisitor’ is a short story that appears in one of Dostoevsky’s most famous works, ‘The Brothers Karamazov’, but it is often read independently due to its standalone story and literary significance. In the tale, Jesus comes to Seville during the Spanish Inquisition and performs miracles but is soon arrested and sentenced to be burned. The Grand Inquisitor informs Jesus that the church no longer needs him as they are stronger under the direction of Satan. ‘The Grand Inquisitor’ is incredibly interesting and compelling for its philosophical discussion about religion and the human condition. The main debate put forth in the poem is whether freedom or security is more important to mankind, as an all-powerful church can provide safety but requires its followers to abandon their free will. This tale remains remarkably influential among philosophers, political thinkers, and novelists from Friedrich Nietzsche and Noam Chomsky to David Foster Wallace and beyond. Dostoevsky’s writing is both inventive and provocative in this timeless story as the reader is free to come to their own conclusions. ‘The Grand Inquisitor’ should be read by anyone interested in philosophy or politics. Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) was a famous Russian writer of novels, short stories, and essays. A connoisseur of the troubled human psyche and the relationships between the individuals, Dostoevsky’s oeuvre covers a large area of subjects: politics, religion, social issues, philosophy, and the uncharted realms of the psychological. He is most famous for the novels ‘Crime and Punishment’, ‘The Idiot’, and ‘The Brothers Karamazov’. James Joyce described Dostoevsky as the creator of ‘modern prose’ and his literary legacy is influential to this day as Dostoevsky’s work has been adapted for many movies including ‘The Double’ starring Jesse Eisenberg.

Crime and Punishment: Large Print

Crime and Punishment: Large Print
Title Crime and Punishment: Large Print PDF eBook
Author Fyodor Dostoevsky
Publisher
Pages 552
Release 2018-10-07
Genre
ISBN 9781727701418

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Crime and Punishment: Large Printby Fyodor DostoyevskyFrom the Russian master of psychological characterizations, this novel portrays the carefully planned murder of a miserly, aged pawnbroker by a destitute Saint Petersburg student named Raskolnikov, followed by the emotional, mental, and physical effects of that action. Translated by Constance Garnett.

The Brothers Karamazov

The Brothers Karamazov
Title The Brothers Karamazov PDF eBook
Author Fyodor Dostoevsky
Publisher Macmillan
Pages 828
Release 2002-06-14
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9780374528379

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Originally published in 1990 by North Point Press.

The Brothers Karamazov

The Brothers Karamazov
Title The Brothers Karamazov PDF eBook
Author Fyodor Dostoevsky
Publisher First Avenue Editions
Pages 1108
Release 2015-01-01
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1467778087

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Four brothers reunite in their hometown in Russia. The murder of their father forces the brothers to question their beliefs about each other, religion, and morality.

The Brothers Karamazov

The Brothers Karamazov
Title The Brothers Karamazov PDF eBook
Author Fyodor Dostoevsky
Publisher Everyman's Library
Pages 850
Release 1992-04-28
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0679410031

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Dostoevsky’s last and greatest novel is, above all, the story of a murder, told with hair-raising intellectual clarity and a feeling for the human condition unsurpassed in world literature. It is a masterpiece that chronicles the bitter love-hate struggle between an outsized father and his three very different sons. The author's towering reputation as one of the handful of thinkers who forged the modern sensibility has sometimes obscured the purely novelistic virtues – brilliant characterizations, flair for suspense and melodrama, instinctive theatricality – that made his work so immensely popular in nineteenth-century Russia. This award-winning translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky – the definitive version in English – magnificently captures the rich and subtle energies of Dostoevsky’s masterpiece.