Fyodor Dostoyevsky 
The Brothers Karamazov 

Completed only a few months before the author’s death,
The Brothers Karamazov is Dostoyevsky’s largest, most expansive, most life-embracing work. Filled with human passions ― lust, greed, love, jealousy, sorrow, and humor ― the book is also infused with moral issues and the issue of collective guilt.

As in many of Dostoyevsky’s novels, the plot centers on a murder. Three brothers, different in character but bound by their ancestry, are drawn into the crime’s vortex: Dmitri, a young officer utterly unrestrained in love, hatred, jealousy, and generosity; Ivan, an intellectual capable of delivering impromptu disquisitions about good and evil, God, and the devil; and Alyosha, the youngest brother, preternaturally patient, kind, and loving. Part mystery, part profound philosophical and theological debate,
The Brothers Karamazov represents the culmination of Dostoyevsky’s life’s work and ranks among the greatest novels of all time.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part One

Book I: The History of a Family

1. Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov

2. He Gets Rid of His Eldest Son

3. The Second Marriage and the Second Family

4. The third Son, Alyosha

5. Elders

Book II: An Unfortunate Gathering

1. They Arrive at the Monastery

2. The Old Buffoon

3. Peasant Women Who Have Faith

4. A Lady of Little Faith

5. So Be It! So Be It!

6. Why Is Such a Man Alive?

7. A Young Man Bent on a Career

8. The Scandalous Scene

Book III: The Sensualists

1. In the Servants‘ Quarters

2. Lizaveta

3. The Confession of a Passionate Heart–in Verse

4. The Confession of a Passionate Heart–in Anecdote

5. The Confession of a Passionate Heart–‚Heels Up‘

6. Smerdyakov

7. The Controversy

8. Over the Brandy

9. The Sensualists

10. Both Together

11. Another Reputation Ruined

Part Two

Book IV: Lacerations

1. Father Ferapont

2. At His Father’s

3. A Meeting with the Schoolboys

4. At the Hohlakovs‘

5. A Laceration in the Drawing Room

6. A Laceration in the Cottage

7. And in the Open Air

Book V: Pro and Contra

1. The Engagement

2. Smerdyakov with a Guitar

3. The Brothers Make Friends

4. Rebellion

5. The Grand Inquisitor

6. For a While a Very Obscure One

7. ‚It’s Always Worth While Speaking to a Clever Man‘

Book VI: The Russian Monk

1. Father Zosima and His Visitors

2. Notes of the Life of the Deceased Priest and Monk, the Elder Zosima, Taken from His Own Words by Alexey Fyodorovich Karamazov

3. Conversations and Exhortations of Father Zosima

Part Three

Book VII: Alyosha

1. The Breath of Corruption

2. A Critical Moment

3. An Onion

4. Cana of Galilee

Book VIII: Mitya

1. Kuzma Samsonov

2. Lyagavy

3. Gold Mines

4. In the Dark

5. A Sudden Resolution

6. ‚I Am Coming, Too!‘

7. The First and Rightful Lover

8. Delirium

Book IX: The Preliminary Investigation

1. The Beginning of Perhotin’s Official Career

2. The Alarm

3. The Sufferings of a Soul. The First Ordeal

4. The Second Ordeal

5. The Third Ordeal

6. The Prosecutor Catches Mitya

7. Mitya’s Great Secret. Received with Hisses

8. The Evidence of the Witnesses. The Babe

9. They Carry Mitya Away

Part Four

Book X: The Boys

1. Kolya Krasotkin

2. Children

3. The Schoolboy

4. The Lost Dog

5. By Ilyusha’s Bedside

6. Precocity

7. Ilyusha

Book XI: Ivan

1. At Grushenka’s

2. The Injured Foot

3. A Little Demon

4. A Hymn and a Secret

5. Not You, Not You!

6. The First Interview with Smerdyakov

7. The Second Visit to Smerdyakov

8. The Third and Last Interview with Smerdyakov

9. The Devil. Ivan’s Nightmare

10. ‚It Was He who Said That‘

Book XII: A Judicial Error

1. The Fatal Day

2. Dangerous Witnesses

3. The Medical Experts and a Pound of Nuts

4. Fortune Smiles on Mitya

5. A Sudden Catastrophe

6. The Prosecutor’s Speech. Sketches of Character

7. A Historical Survey

8. A Treatise on Smerdyakov

9. The Galloping Troika. The End of the Prosecutor’s Speech

10. The Speech for the Defense. An Argument That Cuts Both Ways

11. There Was No Money. There Was No Robbery

12. And There Was No Murder Either

13. A Corrupter of Thought

14. The Peasants Stand Firm

Epilogue

1. Plans for Mitya’s Escape

2. For a Moment the Lie Becomes Truth

3. Ilyusha’s Funeral. The Speech at the Stone