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I love The Brothers Karamazov, but it did take me two or three times to appreciate it. I think the key is that the plot is really more of a metaphor than it is an actual plot engine. Each of the brothers is a metaphor for a different part of Man's psyche - Dmitri is the id, Ivan is the ego, Alyosha is the superego, and the unconscious is also lurking around in the background. They all wish to kill the father and take his place, but they all have different ideas about how to do that. It's a metaphor for the different paths that Dostoyevsky thought that Man could take in the modern age. (It's also a metaphor for Russia more specifically - the brothers all represent alternate paths of philosophical and political development for Russian society, now that the old Russia of Fyodor is dying out.) Also, if you want a more condensed version of Dostoyevsky, this comic is a ten-page retelling of Crime and Punishment (also a great book), but if the protagonist were Batman. http://www.againwiththecomics.com/2007/08/batman-by-dostoyevsky.html
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