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Siblings in The Brothers Karamazov
Author(s) -
BERMAN ANNA A.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
the russian review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.136
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1467-9434
pISSN - 0036-0341
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9434.2009.00524.x
Subject(s) - slavic languages , citation , slavic studies , library science , computer science , history , classics
The Brothers Karamazov has often been looked at as a study of the breakdown of father-son relations, an interpretation justified by Dostoevsky’s own words. In an often-quotedentry in his Writer’s Diary from January 1876, Dostoevsky explained: “For a long time now I have had the goal of writing a novel about children in Russia today, and about their fathers too, of course, in their mutual relationship of today. ... I will take fathers and children from every level of Russian society I can find and follow the children from their earliest childhood.”1 Dostoevsky saw the breakdown of the family as connected to overall societal degeneration. [...