The Brothers Karamazov

But if parricide is a prejudice, and if every child is to ask his father why he is to love him, what will become of us? What will become of the foundations of society?

Fyodor Pavlovich's murder → Dmitri pursued → Smerdyakov's confession → trial → Alyosha's mission: plot as theological argument made flesh,故情节 96。

Fyodor Pavlovitch, for instance, began with next to nothing; his estate was of the smallest; he ran to dine at other men's tables, and fastened on them as a toady, yet at his death it appeared that he had a hundred thousand roubles in hard cash.

Dmitri, Ivan, Alyosha, Fyodor Pavlovich, Smerdyakov, Grushenka—each brother a mode of response to God and guilt; father established as grotesque catalyst,故人物 95。

Why, then, art Thou come to hinder us? For Thou hast come to hinder us, and Thou knowest that. But dost Thou know what will be to-morrow?

Twelve books of philosophical dilation—Inquisitor legend, Zosima's life, trial—reward patience but slacken procedural momentum for plot-velocity readers,故节奏 80。

The sun of love burns in His heart, light and power shine from His eyes, and their radiance, shed on the people, stirs their hearts with responsive love.

Dostoevsky's polyphonic fever—Inquisitor legend, Dmitri's dream, Alyosha's starry night—dialogue as dialectic and prophecy among most influential prose,故文笔 94。

Alexey Fyodorovitch Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov, a land owner well known in our district in his own day, and still remembered among us owing to his gloomy and tragic death.

Skotoprigonyevsk, monastery, Mokroye, courtroom—provincial Russia as moral arena; Karamazov household as microcosm of faith, doubt, and sensuality,故世界观 93。

He was one of those senseless persons who are very well capable of looking after their worldly affairs, and, apparently, after nothing else.

Fyodor Pavlovich's grotesque introduction and three sons summoned establishes family that will explode; father's vileness prefigures patricide,故开篇钩 90。

I know too well what Thou wouldst say. And Thou hast no right to add anything to what Thou hadst said of old. Why, then, art Thou come to hinder us?

Novel of ideas as dramatic form—patricide as theological test, polyphonic voices without authorial resolution—template for existential fiction,故创新 96。

Let us never forget him. May his memory live for ever in our hearts from this time forth!

Alyosha among the boys at Ilyusha's stone—faith transmitted through memory; Epilogue communal tenderness completes case for active love,故结局 93。