Both in Russian and world literature, The Brothers Karamazov, the swan song of Fyodor Dostoevsky, is a landmark work.
Through the pages of this work, Dostoevsky, who was never indifferent to the vivid reality of his time, has the opportunity to vividly depict a mural of life in Russia and its people at the end of the tumultuous 1860s.
This is the era following the abolition of serfdom, a scar that had disfigured the face and soul of the country for centuries and was uniquely captured by the pen of Gogol in 'Dead Souls.'
The work, set in 1866 - or, more broadly, in the period 1860-1870 - precisely conveys the sense of renewal, the expectation of the old world being succeeded by a new, fairer one, where new social forces will find ground to take root and flourish, and it is rightly considered one of Dostoevsky's most optimistic works.
[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]
