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The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett - translator

Dostoevsky uses family conflict and murder to wrestle with freedom, faith, doubt, morality, and what it means to be responsible for one another.

What stuck

  • Freedom, responsibility, and faith are harder to separate than modern people like to pretend.
  • Dostoevsky keeps circling the idea that we are bound up in one another's moral lives.