As I have noted before in this space, one of the amazing things about The Brothers Karamazov is that it contains within it a zillion different themes. I recently read it with one of my reading groups. I was talking with one of the students a few days before we were going to meet and asked her which of the endless possibilities she thought would be an interesting discussion. Her reply, to put it mildly, surprised me. She really wanted to talk about Perezvon. If you haven’t read the … [Read more...] about More Surprises in The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov review
Finding Joy in Great Books
Let’s start by getting this out of the way: The Brothers Karamazov, by Dostoevsky is a Great Book (you also knew that). Not only is it Great, it is perhaps the Greatest Novel Ever Written. I think its only competitors for that status are Pride and Prejudice and Middlemarch. Maybe War and Peace. After reading it 4 or 5 times, I still find it brilliant from beginning to end, gripping, thoughtful, and amazingly fun to read. Everything … [Read more...] about Finding Joy in Great Books