The murder of a dissolute father draws his three very different sons into a searing drama of faith, doubt, and moral responsibility that culminates in a wrenching trial.
Books mentioned in The Brothers Karamazov (4)
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol: “he claims (he was arguing about it all the way yesterday) that Gogol wrote _Dead Souls_ about him.”
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo: “In Victor Hugo’s _Notre Dame de Paris_ an edifying and gratuitous spectacle was provided for the people in the Hôtel de Ville of Paris”
Candide by Voltaire: “But I've read _Candide_ in the Russian translation ... in an absurd, grotesque, old translation”
The Robbers by Friedrich Schiller: “they are both out of Schiller's _Robbers_, and so I am the reigning Count von Moor!”
Books that mention The Brothers Karamazov (17)
Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami: “"Ever read The Brothers Karamazov" I asked. "Once, a long time ago." "Well, toward the end, Alyosha is speaking to a young student named Kolya Krasotkin.”
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami: “"I knew the names of all the brothers Karamazov" — offered as one of the narrator's distinguishing characteristics.”
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami: “Dostoyevsky, for instance, wrote two of his most profound novels, The Possessed and The Brothers Karamazov, in the last few years of his life before his death at age sixty.”
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón: “the day was turning out to be longer than The Brothers Karamazov”
Babel Tower by A. S. Byatt: “A man 'hearing The Brothers Karamazov read on the wireless' is seized with a violent impulse.”
An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine: “Pevear and Volokhonsky "began with the most difficult Russian bear of all, The Brothers Karamazov"”
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami: ““There is an episode involving the devil and Christ in The Brothers Karamazov, I recall.”
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri: “he had read pages of The Brothers Karamazov, and Anna Karenina, and Fathers and Sons.”
How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom: “Dosto evsky's heroic quest to write eternal fictions, culminating in The Brothers Karamazov.”
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote: “Lowell Lee was locked in his bedroom reading the last chapter of The Brothers Karamazov.”
The Breast by Philip Roth: “My life's drama, as exciting in the early years of therapy as The Brothers Karamazov, has all the appeal now of some tenth-grade reader...”
The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth: “Felix can rise unto Heaven from the lobby and discuss your funny little mimeographed story with the author of The Brothers Karamazov”
Cogwheels by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa: “I began reading "Crime and Punishment" to ease this fear. But the page I happened to open was a passage from The Brothers Karamazov. [auto-translated]”