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The Brothers Karamazov

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The Brothers Karamazov

By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Constance Garnett - translator
Narrated by: David Rintoul
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Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel, The Brothers Karamazov is both a brilliantly told crime story and a passionate philosophical debate. The dissolute landowner Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is murdered; his sons - the atheist intellectual Ivan, the hot-blooded Dmitry, and the saintly novice Alyosha - are all at some level involved.

Bound up with this intense family drama is Dostoevsky's exploration of many deeply felt ideas about the existence of God, the question of human freedom, the collective nature of guilt, and the disastrous consequences of rationalism. The novel is also richly comic: the Russian Orthodox Church, the legal system, and even the author's most cherished causes and beliefs are presented with a note of irreverence, so that orthodoxy, radicalism, sanity and madness, love and hatred, right and wrong are no longer mutually exclusive.

Translated by the acclaimed Russian-English translator, Constance Garnett.

Public Domain (P)2023 SNR Audio Classics Russia

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"The allegory for the world's maturity", Rebecca West
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This is the first time through this book and I’m glad I picked this version.

Great performance

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Listened to a good amount of them and I just like this one the best

This performance is the best

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Extraordinarily well read. Inflection of voice, distinction of characters, capturing of drunkeness, crying, and other emotions.

Brilliant Performance by Rintoul

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David Rintoul’s reading of The Brothers Karamazov is inspired. I can’t recall a better performance of a novel. The story flows along so well I could not stop listening time after time. Bravo!

A Standard-Setting Performance

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Narration made a fantastic book even better. I noticed there was a decent chunk skipped over in the Grand Inquisitor but other than that it was great.

Best narration of The Brothers Karamazov

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I've been through half a dozen Brothers Karamazov performances through the years, finally satisfied with the Walter Zimmerman audiobook. But this one is superior.

Finally, a reader doesn't strain to sound female for those voices, but just gently lightens his natural voice. I don't know why more performers don't make this choice.

This voice is strong, but never overwrought. He is entirely relaxed, but lively. Deep, but not in a showy way. Never sounds contrived. It's a perfect performance.

Finally

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narration was very talented but per direction, I'm sure, was dramatic and sometimes too much, I grew fatigued and had to take a break. nonetheless it was fitting with the period and characters, and the story is classic. philosophical tales do tend to be this way.

glad I got through it. it's a beautiful rendition of both good and evil always part of all of of us. the injustice in this story is somehow still just, it's a timeless thought provoker.

long. classic. worth it. but long.

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Buy this audiobook and get two geniuses for the price of one. Dostoyevsky, and the narrator, David Rintoul. That’s not hyperbole. He really is that good!

Geniuses

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