The Brothers Karamazov

This novel “The Brothers Karamazov” by Dostoyevsky , set in 19th-century Russia, is considered one of the Supreme achievements in literature of the world. "The Brothers Karamazov" is a philosophical book, which enters deeply into the ethical debates of God, free will and morality. It is a spiritual drama of moral struggles concerning faith, doubt, reason, and against a modernizing Russia, with a plot that revolves around the theme of patricide. The novel tells of a fictional murder to Staraya Russa committed by an named praporshchik Dmitry Ilynskov, who is thought to have killed his father. In writing the Brothers Karamazov Dostoyevsky was also affected by personal tragedy: the death of the son of epilepsy three years; the pain of the novelist is evident throughout the book.