The Brothers Karamazov Author:Dostoyevsky The Brother Karamazov "In all the later imaginative work of Dostoyevsky it is impossible to separate the idealogical from the artistic conception. These are novels of ieas, in which the characters, for all their enormous vitality and individuality, are after all ony atoms charged with the electricity of ideas. It has beeen said of Dostoyevsky ... more »that he 'felt ideas,' as others feel cold and heat and pain. This distinbuishes him from all other imaginative writers -- the same faculty of 'feeling ideas' is to be discovered only in certain great religious thinkers, in St. Paul, St. Augustine, Pascal, and Nietzche." - from D. S. Mirsky's A HISTORY OF RUSSION LITERATURE in the Vintage RUSSIAN library.« less