The Brothers Karamazov

“For me, Dostoevsky, the Russian novelist, sort of top of that list. His books, The Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment and Notes from Underground, The Devils, are unbelievably compelling works of fiction and they're deep.”

“There's a scene in Dostoyevsky's great book The Brothers Karamazov, which is a classic scene.”

“so in the Brothers karamazov the hero is a noviciate named elosha and he's contrasted alosia is a very good person but he's not an intellectual and his arguments aren't as tightly formulated and pointed as they might be”

“I'll give you an example: so in The Brothers Karamazov, the hero is a novice named Alyosha, and he's contrasted with Ivan. Alyosha is a very good person, but he's not an intellectual and his arguments aren't as tightly formulated and pointed as they might be.”

“I was reading this dstvki quote the other day and writing about he said he has a father there zasima who is the spiritual guide of this uh I think it's aliosha who's a mon mon monastic noviciate in the brothers karamazov which is a great book and zasima tells alosha you are responsible not only for everything you do”

“you see something similar happening in the brother's karamazov”

“it's like Ivan karamazov in the brothers karamazov he says life is so Rife with catastrophe and suffering betrayal malevolence”

“that's the Russian concept of subordinast which is so strong in Dostoyevsky especially the brothers karamazov”

“well that's and that's really the theme in some profound sense both of the brothers karamazov and of the idiot”

“but i mean i think i think you can make a case that the brothers karamazov is dostoevsky's crowning achievement”

“dstvki was writing you know the brothers karamatsov is a deeply interesting meaningful document.”

“other maniac ivan in the brothers karamazov yeah right”

“And and and it's so interesting how it works in in in the brothers Karamazovv um dsvki pits Ivan against Iliosa and Ivan is handsome and debonire and he's he's the warrior type that you just described.”

“ivan makes that case in the brothers karamazov brilliantly brilliantly”

“it's not a traditional novel akin to war in peace or akin to other Russian novels such as the brothers katof were in the first Circle which we talked about here on the program uh previously”

“do you know what Gerard thought of uh the grand Inquisitor in uh the brothers katof this idea that that the church had betrayed uh the teaching of Jesus”

“my top five would be uh the brothers karamazov soldiers of the great war brothers come outside by dostoyevsky”

“or for people who are not watching oh yeah on youtube the brothers karamazov”

“He would say that me going to mass as a Catholic is a leisure activity. That me reading a book, you know, you know, reading the brother's Kamazov, which I don't have to read for work, that would be a form of leisure as well.”

“Read 15 minutes a day. Pick up The Brothers K. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky.”

“um I just reread U the brothers kov last year”

“Um, I just reread 'The Brothers Karamazov' last year because he has such a deep understanding of the human soul—the darkness and the lightness, both. Yeah, of the human soul—um, it’s fascinating.”

“I guess I'm I'm really grateful that Dostoevsky's been my favorite author since I was in high school because it made it so that uh you know, when I started getting bombarded on all sides with anti-Russian propaganda, it was just I had an immune system built up to it because I already love these people, you know. Anyone who”

“if you haven't read the brothers karamazov you will not really you're not grown up”

“and you know i love others of this stuff too the brothers care and myself and so forth but crime and punishment i first read in high school as a junior or senior and it is a deep and profound meditation on uh the the both the meaning and the measure of our lives”

“Like these characters exist, authors exist, Dostoevsky exists, but also "Brothers Karamazov."”

“Well, there is, I mean, with Dostoyevsky's "The Idiot," Prince Michigan, and Brothers Karmasov, there's Alyosha Karmasov, you err on the side of love and almost like a naive trust in other human beings.”

“is there a case to be made that brothers karmazov is the greatest book ever written yeah there's a case to be made for that i don't know is it better than crime and punishment yes”

“is there a case to be made that brothers karamazov is the greatest book ever written”

“On which point, I got to ask, is there a case to be made that The Brothers Karamazov is the greatest book ever written?”

“Yes, I’ve read 'The Brothers Karamazov' in Russian.”

“and then I read The Brothers Karamazov and it was just an astonishing reading experience for me and it kind of shattered my faith”

“And so, for me, like I think the the the book that it destroyed my faith I had a I had always been in Catholic school and my parents my mom's a Protestant and my my father's an atheist but they just let faith be a private matter that my brother and I could decide for ourselves and I I”

“Then I read The Brothers Karamazov and it was just an astonishing reading experience for me, and it kind of shattered my faith.”

“The Brothers Karamazov was like this link to the world for me.”

“i i quote in the war in the west this this when i read it first time a few years ago i was absolutely flawed by the brothers karamazov”

“Dostoevsky, "The brothers Karamazov." Has a fantastic passage where the devil appears”

“i quote dostoyevsky as you know from the brothers karamazov where the devil the devil is incapable of is incapable of gratitude um which i i is it is deeply telling and brilliant”

“aquinas's argument from the summa and then to your friend and mine uh dostoevsky i think in the brothers karamazov yvonne's argument when he's trying to wreck the faith of alyosha and it's these examples drawn they think from dostoyevsky from the headlines of his own time of the most abject cruelty to children like an innocent child being made”

“I think in the brothers Karamazov, uh, Yvonne's argument when he's trying to wreck the faith of Alyosha, and it's um, these examples drawn.”

“actually which came from not the Bible but from fyodor dostoyevsky's book uh the brothers karamazov Brothers gay uh in his chapter entitled The Grand Inquisitor actually and it tells the story of how Christ comes back to Earth during the 15th or 16th century or whatever in Seville Spain”

“I was reminded of one of my favorite stories about Christ from Fyodor Dostoevsky's book, The Brothers Karamazov, particularly the chapter entitled 'The Grand Inquisitor.'”

“and that's why he gets such wonderful arguments in Brothers karamazov uh because he confronted all the hardest arguments”

“i mean their uh religiousity would permeated his idea i mean one of my favorite books of his is the idiot”

“and I think if if you look in the brothers karamazov in particular the the Russian literary theorist M Bakin wrote about this as a polyphonic mode of fiction”

“I think Anna Corina is the greatest novel ever written I think Brothers katsov is one of the three or four greatest novels ever written crime and punishment is a tremendous novel but then you get the novels like the idiot or the possessed which I think have great moments but they're kind of sprawling books which you know he”

“I was so lost in 'The Brothers Karamazov', just in love with it.”

“and then Brothers Kaza I te in a amazing lecture class by Monika Greenleaf at Stanford and that was when I kind of acquired a more adult theoretical understanding of DKI”

“He has this ”

“So I was like, I'm going to have to go back. You read The Grand Inquisitor in the middle of the brothers.”

“And maybe we could do that by referring to the Grand Inquisitor in the Brothers Karamazov, as long as we put it together with Notes from Underground, which I just taught for a course. I did a course on literature in the meaning crisis, and so I that you use notes.”

“I'm a big fan of Prince Mishkin from 'The Idiot,' and I learned from 'The Brothers Karamazov.' Optimism can be seen as naïveté and dumbness, but I think it's a kind of deep intelligence, maybe an inability to reason about the mechanics of the world, but instead kind of feel the world.”

“really centralized for the left the heat map actually focuses on rung 13 or 14 which is all living things including trees and plants so it's this kamam Brothers karamazov problem where you can't love individual people or things or your community you have to love everything in the abstract and I feel like this is that it's a little”

“so let me talk about the brothers karamazov yes”

“like alyosha right in brothers carter or perilman the mathematician”

“my book is not going to be The Brothers Karamazov. I don't have the size for that.”

“like dusty was into this like in the brothers Kamazov he breaks down the road to Damascus experience and he talks about what happened in that moment so like what you the angle you're taking he takes it like in this hardcore way”

“you should read the idiot by dostoevsky by instinct”