A Nice Looooooooooooooooooooong Read
October 2nd 2006 12:15
There are times when it is "uncool" for a young man to break into tears in a coffee shop. If you are reading The Brothers, it is by no means uncool, and if your eyes don't sting a little during the Elder Zosima's discourses, you have no soul.
Dostoyevsky is an amazing writer, who has shown himself to write wonderful, vivid characters, great dialogue and stunningly insightful glances into human nature and behaviour. The Brothers has been said to have been amongst his greatest works and if you have the time (not to mention the stamina) he is an excellent investment of your time.
The story centres around the four brothers, Mitya, Ivan, Aleksy and Smerdyakov. Each of the brothers is almost diametrically opposed to each of the others. Just like a real family. Mitya is a sensualist, Ivan is an intellectual, Aleksy is pious and loving, and Smerdyakov is morbid. Extremely so.
The death of their father is really the crux of the novel, though watching the lives of all the brothers is interesting as Dostoyevsky gives such amazing and very characterful detailing. He also lapses into some amazing philosophy, epsecially with the "Poema of the Grand Inquisitor".
All in all, you should read this book if you can handle a tough booknow and then. It is a little bit of a struggle up hill, but more than worth it.
Dostoyevsky is an amazing writer, who has shown himself to write wonderful, vivid characters, great dialogue and stunningly insightful glances into human nature and behaviour. The Brothers has been said to have been amongst his greatest works and if you have the time (not to mention the stamina) he is an excellent investment of your time.
The story centres around the four brothers, Mitya, Ivan, Aleksy and Smerdyakov. Each of the brothers is almost diametrically opposed to each of the others. Just like a real family. Mitya is a sensualist, Ivan is an intellectual, Aleksy is pious and loving, and Smerdyakov is morbid. Extremely so.
The death of their father is really the crux of the novel, though watching the lives of all the brothers is interesting as Dostoyevsky gives such amazing and very characterful detailing. He also lapses into some amazing philosophy, epsecially with the "Poema of the Grand Inquisitor".
All in all, you should read this book if you can handle a tough booknow and then. It is a little bit of a struggle up hill, but more than worth it.
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