"The Brothers Karamazov" is an exploration of faith, morality, and human existence, revolving around the tumultuous lives of the Karamazov family. The novel begins with an introduction to Fyodor ...

After their tyrannical father is murdered, three brothers wrestle with questions of faith, allegiance and desire amid a rapidly changing 19th-century Russia. It is easy to generalize about the main ...

Ivan and Alyosha are fundamental characters in a 19th century novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. “The Brothers Karamazov” is noted for its philosophical explorations of God, free will and ...

At their father’s funeral, Ivan Karamazov recounts to his younger brother Alyosha, who is training to be a monk, graphic examples of sadistic acts committed against children.

"The Brothers Karamazov" is an exploration of faith, morality, and human existence, revolving around the tumultuous lives of the Karamazov family. The novel begins with an introduction to Fyodor ...

Yet, when he was unexpectedly elevated to the premiership after the Congress Party’s surprise 2004 election victory, Singh often seemed like a character out of Dostoevsky, possessing the ...

The Luminaries, which concerns a murder and is set in and around Hokitika in New Zealand in the gold rush year of 1866, has been compared with Dickens but is far closer to The Brothers Karamazov ...

Alyosha is visibly distraught, and he himself admits he could not have accepted a world built on the “unjustified blood of a tortured child,” if not for Christ’s crucifixion. Why do the same ...

Actor-director Rajat Kapoor's adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, Karamjale Brothers, retains the original’s story and spirit but unfolds in a hilarious, quasi-farcical tone ...

These powerful themes emerge through the actions and interactions of characters such as the father Fyodor Karamazov, the brothers Dmitri, Ivan and Alyosha Karamazov, and Grushenka and Katerina ...