Dostoevskys last and greatest novel is above all the story of a murder told with hairraising intellectual clarity and a feeling for the human condition unsurpassed in world literature. It is a masterpiece that chronicles the bitter lovehate struggle between an outsized father and his three very different sons. The authors towering reputation as one of the handful of thinkers who forged the modern sensibility has sometimes obscured the purely novelistic virtues brilliant characterizations flair for suspense and melodrama instinctive theatricality that made his work so immensely popular in nineteenthcentury Russia. This awardwinning translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky the definitive version in English magnificently captures the rich and subtle energies of Dostoevskys masterpiece. show more