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The Brothers Karamazov is a passionate philosophical novel that enters deeply into the ethical debates of God, free will, and morality. It is a spiritual drama of moral struggles concerning faith, doubt, and reason, set against a modernizing new Russia. Dostoyevsky composed much of the novel in the old Russia, which is also the main setting of the novel. Since its publication, it has been acclaimed all over the world by intellectuals as diverse as Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Martin Heidegger, Cormac McCarthy and Kurt Vonnegut as one of the supreme achievements in literature.

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Publié par	Interactive Media
Date de parution	15 novembre 2012
Nombre de lectures	4
EAN13	9781909438118
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov

New Edition

Published by Sovereign
An imprint of Max Bollinger
This Edition
First published in 2012
Copyright © 2012 Sovereign
ABOUT FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
A few words about Dostoyevsky himself may help the English reader to understand his work.
Dostoyevsky was the son of a doctor. His parents were very hard-working and deeply religious people, but so poor that they lived with their five children in only two rooms. The father and mother spent their evenings in reading aloud to their children, generally from books of a serious character.
Though always sickly and delicate Dostoyevsky came out third in the final examination of the Petersburg school of Engineering. There he had already begun his first work, “Poor Folk.”
This story was published by the poet Nekrassov in his review and was received with acclamations. The shy, unknown youth found himself instantly something of a celebrity. A brilliant and successful career seemed to open before him, but those hopes were soon dashed. In 1849 he was arrested.
Though neither by temperament nor conviction a revolutionist, Dostoyevsky was one of a little group of young men who met together to read Fourier and Proudhon. He was accused of “taking part in conversations against the censorship, of reading a letter from Byelinsky to Gogol, and of knowing of the intention to set up a printing press.” Under Nicholas I. (that “stern and just man,” as Maurice Baring calls him) this was enough, and he was condemned to death. After eight months’ imprisonment he was with twenty-one others taken out to the Semyonovsky Square to be shot. Writing to his brother Mihail, Dostoyevsky says: “They snapped words over our heads, and they made us put on the white shirts worn by persons condemned to death. Thereupon we were bound in threes to stakes, to suffer execution. Being the third in the row, I concluded I had only a few minutes of life before me. I thought of you and your dear ones and I contrived to kiss Plestcheiev and Dourov, who were next to me, and to bid them farewell. Suddenly the troops beat a tattoo, we were unbound, brought back upon the scaffold, and informed that his Majesty had spared us our lives.” The sentence was commuted to hard labour.
One of the prisoners, Grigoryev, went mad as soon as he was untied, and never regained his sanity.
The intense suffering of this experience left a lasting stamp on Dostoyevsky ’s mind. Though his religious temper led him in the end to accept every suffering with resignation and to regard it as a blessing in his own case, he constantly recurs to the subject in his writings. He describes the awful agony of the condemned man and insists on the cruelty of inflicting such torture. Then followed four years of penal servitude, spent in the company of common criminals in Siberia, where he began the “Dead House,” and some years of service in a disciplinary battalion.
He had shown signs of some obscure nervous disease before his arrest and this now developed into violent attacks of epilepsy, from which he suffered for the rest of his life. The fits occurred three or four times a year and were more frequent in periods of great strain. In 1859 he was allowed to return to Russia. He started a journal-”Vremya,” which was forbidden by the Censorship through a misunderstanding. In 1864 he lost his first wife and his brother Mihail. He was in terrible poverty, yet he took upon himself the payment of his brother’s debts. He started another journal-”The Epoch,” which within a few months was also prohibited. He was weighed down by debt, his brother’s family was dependent on him, he was forced to write at heart-breaking speed, and is said never to have corrected his work. The later years of his life were much softened by the tenderness and devotion of his second wife.
In June 1880 he made his famous speech at the unveiling of the monument to Pushkin in Moscow and he was received with extraordinary demonstrations of love and honour.
A few months later Dostoyevsky died. He was followed to the grave by a vast multitude of mourners, who “gave the hapless man the funeral of a king.” He is still probably the most widely read writer in Russia.
In the words of a Russian critic, who seeks to explain the feeling inspired by Dostoyevsky : “He was one of ourselves, a man of our blood and our bone, but one who has suffered and has seen so much more deeply than we have his insight impresses us as wisdom... that wisdom of the heart which we seek that we may learn from it how to live. All his other gifts came to him from nature, this he won for himself and through it he became great.”
Contents
ABOUT FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
PART I
BOOK I. THE HISTORY OF A FAMILY
CHAPTER I.
FYODOR PAVLOVITCH KARAMAZOV
CHAPTER II. HE GETS RID OF HIS ELDEST SON
CHAPTER III. THE SECOND MARRIAGE AND THE SECOND FAMILY
CHAPTER IV. THE THIRD SON, ALYOSHA
CHAPTER V. ELDERS
BOOK II. AN UNFORTUNATE GATHERING
CHAPTER I. THEY ARRIVE AT THE MONASTERY
CHAPTER II. THE OLD BUFFOON
CHAPTER III. PEASANT WOMEN WHO HAVE FAITH
CHAPTER IV. A LADY OF LITTLE FAITH
CHAPTER V. SO BE IT! SO BE IT!
CHAPTER VI. WHY IS SUCH A MAN ALIVE?
CHAPTER VII. A YOUNG MAN BENT ON A CAREER
CHAPTER VIII. THE SCANDALOUS SCENE
BOOK III. THE SENSUALISTS
CHAPTER I. IN THE SERVANTS’ QUARTERS
CHAPTER II. LIZAVETA
CHAPTER III. THE CONFESSION OF A PASSIONATE HEART-IN VERSE
CHAPTER IV. THE CONFESSION OF A PASSIONATE HEART-IN ANECDOTE
CHAPTER V. THE CONFESSION OF A PASSIONATE HEART-”HEELS UP”
CHAPTER VI. SMERDYAKOV
CHAPTER VII. THE CONTROVERSY
CHAPTER VIII. OVER THE BRANDY
CHAPTER IX. THE SENSUALISTS
CHAPTER X. BOTH TOGETHER
CHAPTER XI. ANOTHER REPUTATION RUINED
PART II
BOOK IV. LACERATIONS
CHAPTER I. FATHER FERAPONT
CHAPTER II. AT HIS FATHER’S
CHAPTER III. A MEETING WITH THE SCHOOLBOYS
CHAPTER IV. AT THE HOHLAKOVS’
CHAPTER V. A LACERATION IN THE DRAWING-ROOM
CHAPTER VI. A LACERATION IN THE COTTAGE
CHAPTER VII. AND IN THE OPEN AIR
BOOK V. PRO AND CONTRA
CHAPTER I. THE ENGAGEMENT
CHAPTER II. SMERDYAKOV WITH A GUITAR
CHAPTER III. THE BROTHERS MAKE FRIENDS
CHAPTER IV. REBELLION
CHAPTER V. THE GRAND INQUISITOR
CHAPTER VI. FOR AWHILE A VERY OBSCURE ONE
CHAPTER VII. “IT’S ALWAYS WORTH WHILE SPEAKING TO A CLEVER MAN”
BOOK VI. THE RUSSIAN MONK
CHAPTER I. FATHER ZOSSIMA AND HIS VISITORS
CHAPTER II. THE DUEL
CHAPTER III. CONVERSATIONS AND EXHORTATIONS OF FATHER ZOSSIMA
PART III
BOOK VII. ALYOSHA
CHAPTER I. THE BREATH OF CORRUPTION
CHAPTER II. A CRITICAL MOMENT
CHAPTER III. AN ONION
CHAPTER IV. CANA OF GALILEE
BOOK VIII. MITYA
CHAPTER I. KUZMA SAMSONOV
CHAPTER II. LYAGAVY
CHAPTER III. GOLD-MINES
CHAPTER IV. IN THE DARK
CHAPTER V. A SUDDEN RESOLUTION
CHAPTER VI. “I AM COMING, TOO!”
CHAPTER VII. THE FIRST AND RIGHTFUL LOVER
CHAPTER VIII. DELIRIUM
BOOK IX. THE PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION
CHAPTER I. THE BEGINNING OF PERHOTIN’S OFFICIAL CAREER
CHAPTER II. THE ALARM
CHAPTER III. THE SUFFERINGS OF A SOUL, THE FIRST ORDEAL
CHAPTER IV. THE SECOND ORDEAL
CHAPTER V. THE THIRD ORDEAL
CHAPTER VI. THE PROSECUTOR CATCHES MITYA
CHAPTER VII. MITYA’S GREAT SECRET. RECEIVED WITH HISSES
CHAPTER VIII. THE EVIDENCE OF THE WITNESSES. THE BABE
CHAPTER IX. THEY CARRY MITYA AWAY
PART IV
BOOK X. THE BOYS
CHAPTER I. KOLYA KRASSOTKIN
CHAPTER II. CHILDREN
CHAPTER III. THE SCHOOLBOY
CHAPTER IV. THE LOST DOG
CHAPTER V. BY ILUSHA’S BEDSIDE
CHAPTER VI. PRECOCITY
CHAPTER VII. ILUSHA
BOOK XI. IVAN
CHAPTER I. AT GRUSHENKA’S
CHAPTER II. THE INJURED FOOT
CHAPTER III. A LITTLE DEMON
CHAPTER IV. A HYMN AND A SECRET
CHAPTER V. NOT YOU, NOT YOU!
CHAPTER VI. THE FIRST INTERVIEW WITH SMERDYAKOV
CHAPTER VII. THE SECOND VISIT TO SMERDYAKOV
CHAPTER VIII. THE THIRD AND LAST INTERVIEW WITH SMERDYAKOV
CHAPTER IX. THE DEVIL. IVAN’S NIGHTMARE
CHAPTER X. “IT WAS HE WHO SAID THAT”
BOOK XII. A JUDICIAL ERROR
CHAPTER I. THE FATAL DAY
CHAPTER II. DANGEROUS WITNESSES
CHAPTER III. THE MEDICAL EXPERTS AND A POUND OF NUTS
CHAPTER IV. FORTUNE SMILES ON MITYA
CHAPTER V. A SUDDEN CATASTROPHE
CHAPTER VI. THE PROSECUTOR’S SPEECH. SKETCHES OF CHARACTER
CHAPTER VII. AN HISTORICAL SURVEY
CHAPTER VIII. A TREATISE ON SMERDYAKOV
CHAPTER IX. THE GALLOPING TROIKA. THE END OF THE PROSECUTOR’S SPEECH.
CHAPTER X. THE SPEECH FOR THE DEFENSE. AN ARGUMENT THAT CUTS BOTH WAYS
CHAPTER XI. THERE WAS NO MONEY. THERE WAS NO ROBBERY
CHAPTER XII. AND THERE WAS NO MURDER EITHER
CHAPTER XIII. A CORRUPTER OF THOUGHT
CHAPTER XIV. THE PEASANTS STAND FIRM
EPILOGUE
CHAPTER I. PLANS FOR MITYA’S ESCAPE
CHAPTER II. FOR A MOMENT THE LIE BECOMES TRUTH
CHAPTER III. ILUSHA’S FUNERAL. THE SPEECH AT THE STONE
NOTES
THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV
PART I
BOOK I. THE HISTORY OF A FAMILY
CHAPTER I.
FYODOR PAVLOVITCH KARAMAZOV
A lexey Fyodorovitch Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov, a land owner well known in our district in his own day, and still remembered among us owing to his gloomy and tragic death, which happened thirteen years ago, and which I shall describe in its proper place. For the present I will only say that this “landowner”-for so we used to call him, although he hardly spent a day of his life on his own estate-was a strange type, yet one pretty frequently to be met with, a type abject and vicious and at the same time senseless. But he was one of those senseless persons who are very well capable of looking after their worldly affairs, and, apparently, after nothing else. Fyodor Pavlovitch, for instance, began with next to nothing; his estate was of the smallest; he ran to dine at other men’s tables, and fastened on them as a toady, yet at his death it appeared that he had a hundred thousand roubles in hard cash. At the same time, he was all his life one of the most senseless, fantastical fellows in the whole district. I repeat, it was not