Friday, March 7, 2014

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I want to confess one thing, I love Russian literature. I love Tolstoy,  Dostoyevsky, Nabokov, Turgenev, Gorky, Pushkin and all of them. I simply love the way they've written and it feels like so connected to all there writings. I've never been is the situations of the characters in these novels but definitely these are so strongly created that I automatically feel like I understand them.

The Brothers Karamazov is the latest novel I read. It is quite big and took me almost a month to finish it but it was such a pleasure. After finishing it I came to know that this was the last novel of Dostoyevsky and I must say that this was quite strong in terms of plot as well as narration.

The plot is quite simple. Its a story of three brothers (Karmazov's) and their relationship with their father. The father gets murdered and the blame goes to one of the sons. There are some subplots which are equally engaging like the one of a dying boy, jealousy of two women etc.

The novel if full of philosophy and typical Russian character sketch.

Loved it and a must read for all the fans of Dostoyevsky.