The Brothers Karamazov

Dostoevsky's last novel: a parricide, three brothers, and a court that cannot judge the soul.

Specifications & Metrics

author

Fyodor Dostoevsky

type

Philosophical novel

era

Russia (1880)

language

Russian

setting

A provincial Russian town

parts

4 parts

Relative Scale in Novels

Core Principles & Analysis

• Serialized 1879–80, the last novel Dostoevsky completed.
• The Grand Inquisitor poem is its philosophical summit.
• A real patericide case in Omsk fed its courtroom plot.

Sources

• Wikipedia: The Brothers Karamazov