Click here for other installments in this review series… And now we (unavoidably) head into spoiler territory… In these three parts – “Alyosha,” “Mitya,” and “The Preliminary Investigation” – we learn that Grushenka, while attempting to escape with her former seducer, becomes convinced that it is Dmitri “Mitya” Karamazov she really loves.  He pursues her… Continue reading

Click here for other installments in this review series… Today I spent some time cleaning out my closet, one of my favorite things to do on academic break.  Afterwards, I settled down to read another part of BK.  In all honesty, the chapter “From the Life of the Elder Zosima” did not look too promising. … Continue reading

Click here for other installments in this review series… In the previous installment, we saw the Karamazov family and friends bickering at Alyosha’s home, the monastery.  Now we see the Karamazov family feuding in its natural habitat, and as what the father Fyodor and the son Dmitri call themselves, half-proudly: “sensualists.” Book III really gets… Continue reading