Book Review: Brothers Karamazov

Can a novel written in 1880 perfectly capture the messy, conflicting depths of modern human psychology? Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov does exactly that, pitting fierce faith against razor-sharp atheism. The Brothers Karamazov, a novel written in the 19th century (published in 1880), explores human psychology, faith, religion, the human condition, fatherhood, suffering and several themes. Dostoevsky creates a stage for these characters and the characters run around and make the story brilliant as it is. Each character has a depth to them and every character feels real in the sense that their actions make sense based on our understanding of them and how humans are. For instance, Ivan, a character who put in work and attempted to understand the world that had rejected him, grows up as an intelligent well-read atheist. Dmitry Karamazov, his elder brother, under (kinda) similar circumstances deals with this rejection and goes a totally different route. While the third brother…