Los hermanos Karamázov

Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov—a drunken, arbitrary, and corrupt landowner—has four sons: Dmitri, of a violent temperament; Ivan, a cold, materialist intellectual; Alyosha, the youngest son, who is passive and religious; and Smerdyakov, the resentful, illegitimate son. The novel revolves around the twisted relationships that develop between the father and his sons, culminating in the father's murder and the trial and conviction of his alleged killer, Dmitri. Hatred, love, cruelty, compassion—radically opposing and clashing emotions...