The Brothers Karamazov - Fjodor DostojevskiThe murder of brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov changes the lives of his sons irrevocably: Mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with his father immediately places him under suspicion for parricide; Ivan, the intellectual, driven to breakdown; the spiritual Alyosha, who tries to heal the family's rifts; and the shadowy figure of their bastard half brother, Smerdyakov. Dostoyevsky's dark masterwork evokes a world where the lines between innocence