The Brothers Karamazov

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*The Brothers Karamazov* (1879–80) is Fyodor Dostoyevsky's final and greatest novel, weaving a sordid patricide mystery around Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his sons Dmitry, Ivan, and Alyosha Beneath its courtroom drama lies an intense theological and philosophical struggle over the existence of God, the origin of evil, and human free will Structured in four parts and an epilogue, dedicated to Dostoyevsky's wife Anna Dostoyevskaya Three celebrated chapters anchor its philosophical architecture: "Rebellion" (Ivan's indictment of a world where children suffer), "The Grand Inquisitor" (Ivan's prose poem on freedom vs. bread), and "The Devil" (Ivan's hallucination symbolizing the banality of evil)