and Dmitry Karamazov
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"Please
understand, it is not God that I do not accept, but the world
he
has created. I do not accept God's world and I refuse to accept
it."
--Ivan
"Your
poem is in praise of Jesus and not in his disparagement as--as
you wanted it to be."
--Alyosha
"All
of us Karamazovs are the same kind of insect, and that insect
lives
in
you, too, my angel, and raises storms in your blood."
--Dmitry
The following books will introduce you to Ivan, Alyosha, and
Dmitry Karamazov, who said these words in Dostoyevsky's The
Brothers Karamazov (David Magarshack, Trans.; Penguin 1958).
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- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. The
Brothers Karamazov (David McDuffy, Trans.). Penguin
USA, 1993.
- Ivan--the cold intellectual, Alyosha--the
youngest, the sensitive, spiritual type, and
Dmitry--violent and emotional: these embattled
siblings could not be more different, it seems.
Yet they share a common substratum of sensuality,
like their father, which each must deal with in
his own way.
- Freud, Sigmund. Writings
on Art and Literature. Meridian/Stanford University
Press, 1997.
- Includes "Dostoevsky and Parricide,"
Freud's 1928 essay on the novel which he called
"the most magnificent in the world."
His speculations on the sources for the parricide
are provocative (if not always biographically
accurate).
- Miller, Robin Feuer. The
Brothers Karamazov: Worlds of the Novel. Twayne/G. K.
Hall, 1992.
- Good on character analysis, close reading of the
plot, role of the Grand Inquisitor in the tension
between Ivan's and Alyosha's worldview.
- Leatherbarrow, W. J. Fyodor
Dostoevsky: The Brothers Karamazov (Landmarks of
World Literature). Cambridge University Press, 1992.
- Background, analysis of the novel, and critical
reception, with guide to further reading.
- Terras, Victor. A
Karamazov Companion: Commentary on the Genesis, Language,
and Style of Dostoyevsky's Novel. Madison: University
of Wisconsin Press, 1981.
- Interesting analysis of the polyphonic play of
voices, each with its own style and dubious
handle on the truth.
- Belknap, Robert. The
Genesis of the Brothers Karamazov. Northwestern
University Press, 1990.
- Dostoyevsky's sources and the process of
creation.
- Bloom, Harold (Ed.). Fyodor
Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov (Modern Critical
Interpretations). Chelsea House, 1988.
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