In this post, I want to briefly outline the life of Fyodor Dostoevsky, look at the main characters in his great novel, The Brothers Karamazov, list a few of the great themes from this novel, and list a few other of Dostoevsky’s great novels that I’ve read and enjoyed. not least because of the dizzying number of theological questions it tackles – the quest for God, the problem of human suffering and evil, doubt, reason, the monastic life, murder, and morality, to name but a few” ( 25 Books, page 245). Each time I’ve read The Brothers Karamazov, during each decade of my life, this novel has impacted my life in different ways, and different parts of the story stood out to me.Īs a novel, The Brothers Karamazov makes the list of 25 Books Every Christian Should Read, with the declaration, The Brothers Karamazov “one of the greatest works of literature ever written. November 2021, I am now 64, ready to read this classic novel for the fifth time. I committed to read The Brothers Karamazov once every decade of my life, because it is such a great novel, wrestling with so many great life themes. During my undergraduate education at University of Washington, I took a course in Dostoevsky and read for the first time in my life Dostoevsky’s great novel, The Brothers Karamazov.
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