In this novel, where people challenge God and society, in the alternating and dreadful rhythm of crime and punishment, the perversions of human thought and the chaos of subconscious impulses are revealed under a blinding light - as if our eye sees heaven and hell through clouds torn by lightning. In this unique world where the idealized and the melodramatic, the pathological and the healthy, the intuitive and the cerebral combine into a solid amalgam, The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky's last novel, takes a place entirely its own. This work, written when Dostoevsky was almost sixty years old and published in 1880, shortly before his death, is not only the most mature and complete of his great works but undoubtedly one of his most representative, as it encapsulates all his ideas and vividly presents all the achievements of his art. The complexity of this masterpiece makes its analysis and evaluation extremely difficult. It consists of many levels, and while its highest artistic success lies in the unity and interdependence of all its parts, one is obliged to examine these levels one by one separately, thus isolating one from the other and disrupting the wholeness of the novel, which in reality constitutes an indivisible artistic whole.