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The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky

His last novel and his summa. Old Fyodor Karamazov, a lecherous buffoon, is murdered, and suspicion falls on his son Dmitri, his rival for Grushenka. The other sons embody the forces of the soul: Ivan, the intellectual who 'returns the ticket' and writes the poem of the Grand Inquisitor; Alyosha, novice of the elder Zosima; and the bastard Smerdyakov, the real murderer. With the trial, the miscarriage of justice and the final scene of the boys at Ilyusha's stone, it confronts the problem of evil, freedom and each person's responsibility for all.