The Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Audiobook Part 3/3 

Incredible writing, when Ivan is talking/dreaming about the devil the philosophy is incredible. Dostoevsky writes books within books, his narration and description add so much to the story.

Whatever Dostoyevsky wrote, it needs a serious edit. So much given to repetitious emotional outpourings, meandering philosophies and rehashes of insignificant events. Good story in there somewhere.

1. He can’t change his accent at will anymore than you or I. Would you have him force a Russian accent? Criticise him for what he can control in his reading not what he can’t. 2. All the main characters in the book are aristocrats by birth or pretence. 3. Russian aristocrats in the 19th century habitually imitated French ones in much the same way English ones did. This is fulsomely and skilfully portrayed. 4. Towards the end when he moved in even the Tsar’s circles Dostoyevsky himself was painfully aware of this. As a Russian nationalist he accentuated it reprovingly and sometimes satirically for the edification of his Russian audience. 5. He juggles a different voice for every character sticking closely to the text. When the text says “she said slurring” he slurs. When the text says “he said indignantly” he is indignant. 6. Speaking for 33 hours doing all this with barely a mistake is not easy. 7. Given his hatred of socialism as a Tower of Babel and what he was warning against in the grand inquisitor I don’t think you, apparently a socialist, are best placed to imperiously judge what kind of book the man wrote and how it differs from his reading of it. 8. If he had any fault to find, Dostoyevsky would find it with the translation as evidenced by his care for the purity of the Russian spoken by the Poles who are based on real life polish nationalists he met in prison. He liked them and felt they knew Russian but deliberately misspoke it as an insult to the motherland.

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@@kennethalbert4653 LOL!!! Crime and Punishment is a near perfect novel. Karamazov needs an edit. Thanks for your input.

@@heather5726 LOL!!! It's just an opinion. No need to get so angry and personal. Crime and Punishment is much better. LOL!!!