brothers karamazov

This book is one of the masterpieces of the great Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky. Through a real patricide case, the novel describes the sharp conflict between old Karamazov and his three sons, that is, two generations. Old Karamazov was greedy and lustful, monopolized the inheritance left by his wife to his sons, and was jealous of a romantic woman with his eldest son Dmitri. One night, Dmitry suspected that his lover was going to have a tryst with the old man, so he broke into the house, and almost smashed the old man to death in a rage. After he fled hastily, the old Karamazov's illegitimate son Smerdyakov, who was hiding in secret and pretending to be sick, killed the master quietly, causing a complicated and confusing murder that shocked the whole of Russia, and triggered a series of thrilling events. The work shows an intricate tragic theme of social family, morality and human nature, and embodies the writer's highest artistic achievement in his life.