The Brothers Karamazov is an 1880 novel by the Russian author, Fyodor Dostoevsky. It emerged from several years of reflection on such issues as free-will, sin, social responsibility, and family ties, but its immediate cause was probably the death of Dostoevsky’s three-year-old son, Alyosha, in 1878. The novel’s hero is called Alyosha, and it’s likely that Dostoevsky created a fictional version of the kind of man he’d have liked his son to become. Dostoevsky himself died four months after the novel’s publication, at the age of just 59.
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