I Finally Finished ‘The Brothers Karamazov’

Then I Picked a Fight with Myself About What It Means

Question: You recently read Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. What prompted you to jump right into The Brothers Karamazov? Self-loathing, masochism, what?

Answer: Possibly. I found Crime and Punishment riveting, and I’ve been putting off The Brothers Karamazov for over a decade.

Did you finish it?

Yes!

Finally finished! Photo by B Rosen, Flickr.

Great. Do y…