Word: karamazovs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov...
...Russian novelist, a master of morbid psychology, would have made of last week's strange marriage in Moscow. Would he have found a chapter in The Possessed for impulsive, dark-eyed Christina, 27, the twice-divorced, jet-setting daughter of the late shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis? Would another Karamazov brother have emerged from his reflections on her spouse, Sergei Kauzov, 37, a former sales representative of the Soviet ship-chartering agency Sovfracht...
...sixth novel Read has traveled abroad and into history for a theme, attempting to write what could be thought of as his Brothers Karamazov, Polish-style. Stefan Kornowski−saint, sinner, intellectual−is Alyosha-Dmitri-Ivan all in one. The son of a ruined count, he moves into a shabby Warsaw apartment when the family country home is lost in the late 1920s. But while his sister, 17, goes to work in a jeweler's shop, Stefan, 15, manages the ultimate Dostoyevskian luxury: "Playing the role of the sort of person he ought to be." He dabbles...
...idles in ennui over his coy stories and precious plays, what can Stefan do to rouse himself from his cursed dilettantism? Like a true Karamazov, he contemplates an ideally perverse murder involving the princess's pubescent daughter. He is saved by, among other things, World War II, which−rest assured−he sits out in the U.S., selling books in a shop in Chicago while his wife and twins are killed by the Nazis. Twenty years later Stefan returns to Europe to commit a romantic crime, have a religious revelation...
Anna was never able to understand the ideas on which Fyodor built his novels. He once sat her down for three hours and tried to explain "The Grand Inquisitor" (from The Brothers Karamazov) to her, but the chapter completely eluded her. His works are discussed only in passing in her reminiscences. But she did have a dazzling intuition of his character and behavior. It is to the personal, temperamental aspect of Dostoevsky that her recently translated memoirs are directed--and in the process, perhaps unwittingly, she reveals how she was able to keep him under her control...