Marcel Reich-Ranicki once described “The Brothers Karamazov” as the best novel in the world. Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s late work, published in 1880, contains like a legacy of the Russian writer the sum of his thinking and his poetic world. Written not as a philosophical treatise, but in the style of a crime story, which is also a family drama, this “novel of an idea” deals with the ultimate questions of humanity and spreads out a rich tableau of thoughts on the Christian religion. He fundamentally asks about God and the devil, good and evil, guilt and atonement, suffering and compassion, freedom and conscience, love and reconciliation, and last but not least also circles the question of the theocide: how can God, who is supposedly good, just and omnipotent , allow all the suffering on earth?
“The Brothers Karamazov” at the Munich Volkstheater – culture
