#the karamazov brothers

[mikhailrakitin]

an ivan just fer you!!

[mistressaccost]

[sielankowy-nihilizm]

Every writer has:

Either you love it or hate it: The Double

Greatest book of all time: The Karamazov Brothers

The one everyone forgets about: The Gentle Spirit

Overlooked masterpiece: Humilated and Insulted

Mental breakdown: Notes from Underground

Which divides the fandom: The Demons

The one that got popular: Crime and Punishment

Fan favourite: The Idiot

Locals favourite: The Gambler

"Experimental": The Crocodile

Meh: The Adolescent

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[strangebrew]

succession 3x10: all the bells say | the brothers karamazov by fyodor dostoevksy

[glitteringpoet1685]

Finally finished the book! Is there a market for glee Karamazov Brothers memes??

Spoilers!

[oskar-vajld]

This café really gets me in my element 📖

[llyweli]

books that will actually change your life

i walk past a lot of 'books that will change your life' when i'm in bookshops, and they're all the same boring definitely-will-not change your life stuff.

how many times do people need to learn the same three things? dump your ego, be kind, and reconcile yourself with the past and your coming death. basic stuff.

so, this is my list of books that will actually change your life, books that provide a deep insight into something greater.

let's begin.

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'the divine comedy' - how may we be redeemed and what comes?

'don quixote' - what do we do with chivalry in an age past it?

'the canterbury tales' - how are we the same as those before?

'david copperfield' - what may we learn from life?

'barnaby rudge' - what happens when the linchpin loosens?

'crime and punishment' - how can we live if we are not honest?

'the idiot' - how can we be honest if we have not lived?

'the karamazov brothers' - how should we live?

'the count of monte cristo' - what, when father leaves?

'the sun also rises' - where do we go when we have nowhere?

'les miserables' - what do make of redemption?

'ulysses' - what do we not notice?

'moby-dick' - where does the torment of men lead?

i have decided to illustrate the reasons for reading these by the questions they can answer, these are not their only answers but these are what i believe is at the core.

[pablosleepy]

dear carbon based lifeforms. I'm really happy to present to you... The Karamazov Bros

[mikhailrakitin]

unfinished, lise and rakitin gossiping

[chimicalbomb]

The reason i love The Karamazov Brothers is their duality,each brother earns for greatness and yet their human nature gets in the way.

Dmitri is hateful,full of rage, and yet he is hopelessly in love. He's just like his father,and that's why he hates him so much. He 's stuck between two women and two brothers. He is afraid of Ivan because of his judgemental stare,the stare of the world against his father. He's fearful but likes to put the front,the front of the martyr. Yet none of the characters are able to be one. Alyosha idolizes the only father figure he got,Father Zosima,only to get broken in pieces when he realises that he was just as human as him. Torn apart between the cynical world and faith,he chooses to keep the light in his heart and step into the world like an old cat.

I find Alyosha the most tragic of them all,because he forgives and believes,believes in his brothers,in his sulken father that would never catch the last breath from under the rock that he was living. Sinners don't need punishment, but rather knowing what forgiveness feels like ,that's why his father felt to close to Alyosha after years of ignorace for his poor sons.

Ivan,in love or in death,he believes in nothing,he wants to think that sensibilities are for the weak, but in the end,that's what comes after him. His academic youth drove him into an overthinking mess that can describe our generation better than anything, having conversations with the devil on the couch is something that only he can do in peace.

Smerdyakov,as much as he's not a legitimate brother ,he's insane as people say,sadistic or almost a socipath. But i believe in his humanness, not in a "he could be fixed",cause nobody can fix any human but himself. I believe his human nature because of his grief, of his shame,the shame of the womb of the mother,the shame of substituting a wanted child,the shame of being ill and yet using it against others.

Dostoievski's novels are like verses to the soul and i think more than anything,he teaches us that humans aren't perfect.

Even the angel that died in the little bed of the dirty home once threw rocks at others,even the most devoted friend once swore to be an enemy.

Even the drunken man loves his children in his sick madness.

[astereaus]

"It was a bright July night, quiet and warm, the river was wide, mist was rising from its surface to cool us, a fish splashed gently every now and again, the birds had fallen silent, everything was still, serene, in prayer to God."

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

[pinksalmons]

“And she tortures me, tortures me with her love. The past was nothing! In the past it was only those infernal curves of hers that tortured me, but now I’ve taken all her soul into my soul and through her I’ve become a man myself”

The Karamazov Brothers - Fyodor Dostoevsky

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[strangebrew]

my little vanya