The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue

杜斯妥也夫斯基（1821~1881）是19世紀俄國三大文豪之一，他那些龐雜繁複的著作，深入地「洞察人類的心靈」。《卡拉馬助夫兄弟們》發表後，隨即於1880年12月出版單行本，原本有第二部的寫作構思，因作者於隔年年初（1981年2月9日）肺部出血過世而斷筆絕唱，留下未解決的「公案」，卻無損及這部鉅著的完整意義，另一方面也成了他的「扛鼎壓卷」。整部《卡拉馬助夫兄弟們》以卡拉馬助夫家族五位男成員：父親費道爾、長子特米脫里、次子伊凡、三子阿萊莎、私生子司米爾加可夫，及兩位女性介入：格魯申卡、卡德鄰納，共七名各具人性特點為主要角色，發展愛恨情愁的糾葛故事，穿插修道院院長曹西瑪長老的宗教理念、懸疑的弒父情節、宗教裁判的論辯，組成這部不斷戰慄人心，又饒富推理的「多重音響」作品。作者在「追求美德，信仰宗教」與唯物思想的兩極間擺蕩、猶豫，剖析深層人性的矛盾掙扎。

Winner of the Pen/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize

The Brothers Karamasov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the "wicked and sentimental" Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons--the impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; and the healthy, red-cheeked young novice Alyosha. Through the gripping events of their story, Dostoevsky portrays the whole of Russian life, is social and spiritual striving, in what was both the golden age and a tragic turning point in Russian culture.

This award-winning translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky remains true to the verbal
inventiveness of Dostoevsky''s prose, preserving the multiple voices, the humor, and the surprising modernity of the original. It is an achievement worthy of Dostoevsky''s last and greatest novel.

Fyodor Dostoevsky was a Russian novelist and writer of fiction whose works, including Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, have had a profound and lasting effect on intellectual thought and world literature.

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky were awarded the PEN/ Book-of-the-Month Translation Prize for The Brothers Karamazov and have also translated Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, Notes from Underground, Demons, and The Idiot.