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The brothers Karamazov : a novel in four parts with epilogue / Fyodor Dostoevsky ; translated and annotated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky .

By:

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, (1821-1881)

Contributor(s):

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 1990.Description: xx, 796 p. ; 21 cmISBN:

9780374528379

Uniform titles:

Bratia Karamazovy . English

DDC classification:

FIC DOS

LOC classification:

PG3326 .B7 2002

Summary: Dostoevsky'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.The Brothers Karamazov, his last and greatest novel, published just before his death in 1881, chronicles the bitter love-hate struggle between the outsized Fyodor Karamazov and his three very different sons. It 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. 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Fiction / Ficción	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	FIC DOS (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		016754

Dostoevsky'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.The Brothers Karamazov, his last and greatest novel, published just before his death in 1881, chronicles the bitter love-hate struggle between the outsized Fyodor Karamazov and his three very different sons. It 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. 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.

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