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The Greatest Novel Ever Written Asks One Question: What Does It Mean to Actually Love Someone?

There is a question that Dostoevsky spent his entire literary life circling, and The Brothers Karamazov is where he finally faced it directly: what does it mean to be a good person in a world that gives you every reason not to be? The novel centres on three brothers — Dmitri, Ivan, and Alyosha — and their catastrophic, broken father, Fyodor Karamazov, a man described with almost comic precision as someone capable of looking after his worldly affairs and apparently nothing else. When Fyodor is murdered, the question of who did it becomes less interesting than the question of who, in some deeper sense, is responsible — and why. Each brother represents a different answer to the same impossible question. Dmitri is passion — impulsive, honest about his own failings, capable of great love and great destruction in the same breath. Ivan is intellect — brilliant, precise, and ultimately broken by the logic of his own arguments. He has reasoned his way to the conclusion that if Go...
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