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Good versus evil, the power of family ties, the rejection of God's world: these ideas figure prominently in Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel, The Brothers Karamazov. Throughout the book, ideas are woven into a plot that reads like a crime novel. Questions of who did what and why and when keep the reader in suspense. The Brothers Karamazov is a whodunit that asks the philosophical question: how can one live in the world as it is?

Close attention to the text accompanied by class discussion will help us sort out this and other complex issues. But we will also look beyond the text. Each class will begin with brief remarks on topics that bear on The Brothers Karamazov, including Dostoevsky's biography, the historical moment, Dostoevsky's view of religion.

For the first class, as an introduction to Dostoevsky's prose and intellectual perspective, we will read the novella Notes from the Underground.

Victor Ripp was a professor of Russian literature at Cornell University and is the author of Turgenev's Russia (Cornell University Press) and, most recently, of Hell's Traces (Farrar Straus & Giroux). Nancy Kanach has a PhD in Russian literature from Cornell University and taught Russian literature at Princeton University while serving as a dean in the Dean of the College Office.

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Thursdays from 10:00 a.m.–noon for eight weeks beginning March 7 through April 25.
In-Person — Discussion — Maximum 20

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