书名：The Brothers Karamazov 卡拉马佐夫兄弟
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数1150L
作者：Fyodor Dostoyevsky陀思妥耶夫斯基
出版社名称：Signet Classics
出版时间：2007
语种：英文
ISBN：9780451530608
商品尺寸：10.6 x3.3 x 17.3 cm
包装：简装
页数：928

The Brothers Karamazov《卡拉马佐夫兄弟》系19世纪俄国大文豪陀思妥耶夫斯基创作的zui后一部长篇小说，也是作家一生总结性的作品。在去年12月《新京报》公布的各国政要书单中，该书入选普京、梅德韦杰夫和希拉里的书单。
小说描写地主卡拉马佐夫一家父子、兄弟间因金钱和情欲引起的冲突和后来酿成的悲剧。作品借助对人物心理鞭辟入里的分析刻画，揭示了当时俄国现实生活中存在的种种尖锐矛盾。
本书为Signet Classics推出的英文原版，由Constance Garnett翻译，Manuel Komroff编辑并写前言，Sara Paretsky后记，内容完整无删减，书本小巧便携。

“Dostoyevsky paints like Rembrandt, and his portraits are artistically so powerful and often so perfect that even if they lacked the depths of thought that lie behind them and around them, I believe that Dostoyevsky would still be the greatest of all novelists.”—André Gide

The final masterpiece from the celebrated author of Crime and Punishment and The Idiot...

This extraordinary novel, Dostoyevsky’s last and greatest work, tells the dramatic story of four brothers—Dmitri, pleasure-seeking, impatient, unruly… Ivan, brilliant and morose… Alyosha, gentle, loving, honest… and the illegitimate Smerdyakov, sly, silent, cruel. Driven by intense passion, they become involved in the brutal murder of their own father, one of the most loathsome characters in all literature. Featuring the famous chapter, “The Grand Inquisitor,” Dostoyevsky’s final masterpiece is at once a complex character study, a riveting murder mystery, and a fascinating examination of man’s morality and the question of God’s existence.

Translated by Constance Garnett
Edited and with a Foreword by Manuel Komroff
and an Afterword by Sara Paretsky

The Brothers Karamazov《卡拉马佐夫兄弟》系19世纪俄国大文豪陀思妥耶夫斯基的代表作之一。小说通过一桩真实的弑父案，描写老卡拉马佐夫同三个儿子即两代人之间的尖锐冲突。老卡拉马佐夫贪婪好色，独占妻子留给儿子们的遗产，并与长子德米特里为一个风流女子争风吃醋。黑夜，德米特里疑心自己的情人去跟老头儿幽会，便闯入家园，一怒之下，差点儿把老头儿砸死。他仓皇逃离后，躲在暗中装病的老卡拉马佐夫的私生子斯乜尔加科夫悄然杀死老爷，造成了一桩震惊全俄的扑朔迷离的血案，从而引发了一连串惊心动魄的事件。作品展示了一个错综复杂的社会家庭、道德和人性的悲剧，体现了作家一生的艺术成就。

费奥多尔·米哈伊洛维奇·陀思妥耶夫斯基（1821～1881）是19世纪群星灿烂的俄国文坛上一颗耀眼的，与列夫·托尔斯泰、屠格涅夫等人齐名，是俄国文学的卓越代表，他所走过的是一条极为艰辛、复杂的生活与创作道路，是俄国文学史上非常复杂、矛盾的作家之一。即如有人所说“托尔斯泰代表了俄罗斯文学的广度，陀思妥耶夫斯基则代表了俄罗斯文学的深度”。陀思妥耶夫斯基终生关注俄罗斯民族的救赎问题，曾因参与革命活动被判死刑，在行刑前被赦免，一生被癫痫病和酗酒困扰。他在写作中体验了十九世纪非常深刻的精神危机，代表作为《罪与罚》《卡拉马佐夫兄弟》和《白痴》。

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881), one of nineteenth-century Russia’s greatest novelists, spent four years in a convict prison in Siberia, after which he was obliged to enlist in the army. In later years his penchant for gambling sent him deeply into debt. Most of his important works were written after 1864, including Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Brothers Karamazov, all available from Penguin Classics.