The Karamazov Brothers

One of my favourite reads. Dostoevsky captures the complexities of human nature with extraordinary depth and compassion. It’s a slow burn, but each page offers something meaningful — a true classic for readers who enjoy thought-provoking literature.

Solid book solid build. A classic

the cover was quite damaged, with scratch marks and peeling paper.

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A very budget friendly, must read literary piece of work from one of the all time greats of Russia, Fyodor Dostoevsky. The Karamazov Brothers is not just a novel but a life lesson. Alas giving it a rating of 10 out of 5 is not possible.

The Karamazov Brothers (Os Irmãos Karamázov), de Fiódor Dostoiévski, é um clássico absoluto da literatura russa que combina drama familiar, investigação moral e reflexões filosóficas profundas. A história gira em torno da família Karamázov, explorando conflitos, paixões, culpa, fé e justiça, enquanto questiona a natureza humana e os dilemas éticos da vida. O grande diferencial da obra é a profundidade psicológica dos personagens e a habilidade de Dostoiévski em abordar temas universais de maneira intensa e envolvente. É ideal para leitores que apreciam romances complexos, com múltiplas camadas de significado e questionamentos sobre moralidade, religião e responsabilidade pessoal. Uma leitura desafiadora, mas extremamente recompensadora.

Ver very very small fonts, painful to read.

En perfecto estado

'द सुप्रीम समिट ऑफ आल लिटरेचर' यह बात आइंस्टाइन ने फ्योदोर दॉस्तोएव्स्की के उपन्यास 'द करामज़ोव ब्रदर्स' के बारे में कही थी। यह कृति दॉस्तोएव्स्की की magnum opus कही जाती है। मैंने आज इसको पढ़ कर ख़त्म किया। लगभग तीन सप्ताह तक इसको पढ़ता रहा क्योंकि यह बड़ी पुस्तक है... 'वॉर एंड पीस' के बाद सबसे वृहद पुस्तक है, 96 अध्याय और चार लाख शब्दों की. बड़े का दूसरा अर्थ ज़्यादा महत्त्वपूर्ण है कि यह कितने गम्भीर अर्थों में यह प्रभावित करती है। आध्यात्मिकता, ईश्वर प्रेम और सांसारिक झमेले इन सबका ऐसा रसायन जिसको साधना सबके बूते की बात नहीं है। लगभग 100 पात्रों की यह रचना हर पात्र से आपका परिचय कराती है, बिल्कुल डिंस्टिंक्टनेस से। वे याद रह जाते हैं। उनके चेहरे के भाव से लेकर उनके अन्दर चल रही उठा-पटक सब आप देख पाते हैं। उनकी सामाजिक-व्यक्तिगत स्थिति और उनके चरित्र का सम्बन्ध एकदम साफ खुल जाता है आपके सामने। कहानी पर जाना न तो सम्भव है न ठीक है लेकिन जिसको भी 900 पेज़ में फैली एक कहानी पढ़ने का धीरज हो, उसे पढ़ना चाहिए। मुझे पढ़ते समय एक साथ यह महसूस होता रहा कि कब ख़त्म होगी... काश ख़त्म न हो। बच्चों से डील करने का क्या तरीक़ा हो, झूठ को क्यों न अपना चरित्र बनाएं, इस पर इससे बेहतर अन्तर्दृष्टियाँ शायद ही कहीं मिलें। पुस्तक के चार छोटे-बड़े उद्धरण नीचे हैं जो मुझे बहुत अच्छे लगे। आपको तय करना है कि यह जिन प्रसंगों में आये होंगे वे कितने अच्छे होंगे या पुस्तक में किस हद तक मथकर निकले हैं। 1)Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us. 2) Every day and every hour, every minute, walk round yourself and watch yourself, and see that your image is a seemly one. You pass by a little child, you pass by, with ugly words, with wrathful heart; you may not have noticed the child, but he has seen you, and your image, unseemly and ignoble, may remain in his defenceless heart. You don't know it, but you may have sown an evil seed in him and it may grow, and all because you were not careful before the child, because you didn't foster in yourself a careful, actively benevolent love. 3) Above all, do not lie to yourself. A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth either in himself or anywhere around him, and thus falls into disrespect towards himself and others. Not respecting anyone, he ceases to love, and having no love, he gives himself up to passions and coarse pleasures in order to occupy and amuse himself, and in his vices reaches complete beastiality, and it all comes form lying continually to others and himself. A man who lies to himself is often the first to take offense. it sometimes feels very good to take offense, doesn't it? And surely he knows that no one has offended him, and that he himself has invented the offense and told lies just for the beauty of it, that he has exaggerated for the sake of effect, that he has picked up on a word and made a mountain out of a pea--he knows all of that, and still he is the first to take offense, he likes feeling offended, it gives him great pleasure, and thus he reaches the point of real hostility... 4) You must know that there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the future than some good memory, especially a memory of childhood, of home. People talk to you a great deal about your education, but some good, sacred memory, preserved from childhood, is perhaps the best education. If a man carries many such memories with him into life, he is safe to the end of his days, and if one has only one good memory left in one's heart, even that may sometime be the means of saving us.

I'm in love with this book. Dostojevski is one of my favourite authors, so I really needed this book in my collection. Even if the price of this book is really low the quality of it is really good. Wordsworth Classics never disappoints me. I totally recommend to buy it.