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Preface Vll

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Pronunciation of the:Main)Characters' Names '. X
c Contents of The Brothers 'Karamazov Xlll
The Brothers Karamazov, 1
Ralph E. Matlaw . AfterWard: Ori Translating
The Brothers Karamazov 736

Backgrounds and Sources

A BriefCmonologyof Dostoevsky'sLife 746
L. M. Reynus . Prototypes and Heroes of
The Brothers Karamazov '747
From Dostoevsky's Letters 751
To A. N. Maykov (December 11, 1868) 751
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Dostoevskii, Fedor Mikhai1ovich, 1821-1881.
The Brothers Karamazov.
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From Dastaevsky's N atebaaks
From Dastoevsky's\Vritet's Diary' The Kroneberg
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Dmitry Tschiiewskij; Schillerand The Brothers The Brothers Karamazov,waswritten almo.sta hundred years ago..
, Karamazov 794 Same o.fits details are necessarilythose o.fa different age, a differe]1t
Rabert L. Belknap' The Structure of Inherent society, and a different culture, Neyertheless, it beco.mesaccessible
. Relationships: Thtl Buffoon, The Nadryv (Laceration) ~'8°7 c' to. the reader almo.stimmediately if it can 1?epresented in an accur-
Edward Wasiolek .
The Brothers Karamazov: ate and readable versio.n.;.rhe Afterword to. the text discusses the
Idea and Technique 813 revisio.no.fMrs. Garnett's translatio.n which perfarms this functio.n
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Hatry Slochower Incest in The Brothers
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and seeks to. reso.lvemany fo.rmidableproblems that the co.mplexity
Karamazov o.f the novel and the multiplicity o.fits styles ultimately make ins~r-
D. H. Lawrence' The Grand Inquisitor 829 mauntabl~.. r' "
Albert Camus' The Rejection of Salvation 836 The Backgraund materjalhpresent same of, the impulses to.ward
Nathan Rosen' Styleand Structure in .the writing o.fthe no.vd, in"Do.sto.evsky'sawn experiences,in current
841 ev.ents,and in Eeflectionson the,transformatians of life and society
The Brother~Karamazav! '"
at ayparticul~.r epach. Letters dealing with the navel are quated
Leonid Grossman' Dastoevskyas Artist 852 extensively: they reflect the evalutio.naf the navel, the develo.pment
Ya. E. Golosovker ,; The Words "Secref'and~ o.f;itsstructure during the'lprocessaf campasitian, and Dastaevsky's
"Mystery" '
857 co.ncernwith projecting his visio.nadequately bath in ,its main lines
Ralph E. Matlaw . Myth and Symbol 861
and in the miotitest details o.f,the text. They present a fascinating
R. P. Blackmur . Th~ Brothers Karamazov: picture o.f an"artist's invo.lve~ent with hiswo.rk, aparhfrom their
The Peasants Stand Fir~ ~nd the Tragedy of the Saint 87° impartance to. a study af the navel itself. They also. call attentio.n
to. the extrao.rdinaryimpo.rtance o.f purely lih;pry"'problems in a
Selected Bibliogr~phy i 887 navel that has all to.o.frequently been used o.rily:;1Sthe basis far
apacalyptic generalizatians Gn"existence;.Dastaevsky; man, religian,
and so.an. J"~ 'I, ,t "
The Essaysin Cr;iticismfUn the gamut from such generalizatio.ns
to., cancelin with specific wards. 'The firstessay,vo.neof the best
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chapters in Machulsky'sbo.ak an Do.sto.evsky-probably the best
single valume o.f all the many that have, dealt with Do.staevsky-
IS a splendid introductio.n to the navel. It is fo.llawedby'aseminal
essay an pastaevsky!s art and thaught by Professar Tschiiewskij,
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parts af which, cancerned taa extensively with Schiller,Jar thetpur-
pases ,af this valume, have had to. be amitted. They wo.uld have
further emphasized Dastaevsky's extraardinarycancern with the
use af literature, the passibilities af characterizatian and deepening
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af po.rtraits by the citatian af ather literary warks, a technical in-
navatian af Dastaevsky's which has nat yet been sufficiently inves-
tigated, but which is ,at least in part suggested by the faatnates to.
the text itself. I have attempted to. arrange the rest ,pf the essays,
regardless af approach, so. that they might carrespo.nd to. the pra-
gressian af the navel, but this has nat always been passible. Many
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330 The Brothers Karamazov
Now I'll tell you all about it. Hush, Alyosha, your words make me
ashamed, for I am bad and not good-that's what I am. .t\nd you
hush, Rakitka, because you are telling lies. I had the low idea of
trying to get him in my clutches, but now you are lying, now it's all
different. And don't let me hear anytl1ingmore from you, Rakitka.;'
Allthis Grushenkasaidwithextremeemotion. .
"They are both crazy," said Rakitin, looking at them with
amazement. "I feel as though I were in a madhouse. They're Qoth
gettingso feeblethey'llbegincryingin a minute." . "What nonsense! What nonsense!" cried Rakitln, disconcerted.
"I shall begin to cry, I shall," repeated Grushenka. ;me calIe4 me
his sister and I shall never forget that. Only let me tell you, Rakitka,
though I am bad, I did give awayan 'onion."
"An onion? Oh, hell, you really are crazy."
Rakitin wondered at their exaltation. tie was ,!ggrievedand an-
noyed, though he might have reflected that each of them was just
passing through a spiritual crisis such as does not come often in a
lifetime. But though Rakitin was very sensitive about everything
that concerned himself, he was very obtuse as regards the feelings
and sensations of others-partly from his youth and inexperience,
partly from his intense egoism.
"You see, Alyoshechka," Grushenka furned to him with. a ner-
vous laugh. "I was boasting when I told Rakitin I had given away
an onion, but it's not to boast 1 tell you about it. It's only"a story,
but it's a nice story. 1 used to hear it when ,I was a child from
Matryona, my cook, who is still with me. It's like this..Once upon a
time there 'Nas a peasant woman and a very wicked woman she
was. And she died and did not leave a single good deed behind. The
devils caught her and plunged her into the lake of fire. So her
guardian angel stood and wondered what good deed of hers he
could remember to tell to God; 'she once pulled up an onion in her
garden,' said he, 'and gave it to a beggar woman.' And God an-
swered: 'You take that onion then, hold it out to her in the lake,
and let her take hold and be pulled out. And if you can pull her out
of the lake, let her come to Paradise, but if the onion breaks, then
the woman must stay where'she is.' The angel ran to the woman
and held out the onion to lier; 'Come,' said he, 'catch hold and I'll
pull you out.' And he began cau'tiouslypulling her out. He had just
pulled her right out, when the other sinners in the lake, seeing she
was being drawn out, began catching hold of her so as to be pulled
out with her. But she was a very wicked W9man ang she began
kicking them. 'I'm to be pulled out, not you. It's my onion, not
yours.' As soon as she said that, the onion broke. And the woman
fell into the lake and she is burning there to this day. $0 the angel
wept and went away. So that's the story, Alyosha; 1 know it, by
heart, for 1 am that wicked woman myself. I boasted, to Rakitka
that 1 had given away an onion, but to you I'll say: 'I've done
An Onion 33.1
1:!'J~t.bingbut give away one onion all my life, that's the only good'
~eed I've done.' So don't praise me, Alyosha, don't think me good,
'I ani' bad, I'm a wicked woman and. you make me ashamed if you
;~l'aiseme.IEh, 1 must confess everything. Listen, Alyosha. 1 was so
ajmious to get hold of you that 1 promised Rakitin twenty-five
jJb'les if he would bring you to me. Stop, Rakitin, wait!" She went
with rapid steps to the table, opened a drawer, pulled out a purse
aflfltook from it a twenty-fiveruble bill.
"Take it. Rakitka, 1 owe it you, there's no fear of your refusing
it~you asked for it yourself." And she threw the bill to him.
"As if I'd refuse it," boomed Rakitin, obviously abashed, but
caf1:.ying off 'his confusion with a swaggq. "That will come in very
J:1a.n.dy;
fools are made for wisemen's profit."
>'And now hold your tongue",Rakitka, what 1 am going to say
R@W is not for your ears. Sit down in that corner and keep quiet.
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dl'on't like us, so hold your tongue."
"What should 1 like you for?" Rakitin snarled, not concealing his
,m&umor. He put the twenty-fiveruble bill in his pocket and he felt
ashamed at""Alyosha's seeing it. He had reckoned on receiving his
IDaymentlater, "without Alyosha's knowing of it, and now, feeling
ashamed, he lost his temper. Till that moment he had thought it
.!;Hscreet
not to contradict Grushenka too flatly in spite of her snub-
!~ing,since he had somethiI!g to get out of her. But now he, too,
w;!:s.angry: ,
"Qne loves people for some reason, but what have either of you
El0a.efor me?"
"if ou should love people without'a reason, as Alyosha does."
"How does he love YOIY?How has he shown it, that you make
sJ;Icna fuss about it?" .
GFushenka was standing in the middle of the room; sh'e spoke
witnrheat and there were hysterical notes in her voice.
'~Hush, Rakitka, you./know nothing about us! And don't dare to
sp,eak to me like that again. How dare you be so familiar? Sit in
tlJ,at;,corner and be quiet, as t~ough you were my lackey! And now,
Alyosha, I'll tell you the whole truth, that you may see what a
wretch 1 am! 1 am not talking to Rakitka, but to you. 1 wanted to
I ]j,Uinyou, Alyosha, that's the holy truth; 1 quite meant to. 1 wanted
i ,to 5,0much, that 1 bribed Rakitka to bring you. And why did I want
to. do such a thing? You knew nothing about it, Alyosha, you
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tumed away from me, if you passed me, you dropped your eyes.
! Ana. ,rye looked at' you a hundred times before today, 1 began
I asking everyone about you. Your face haunted my heart. 'He de-
spises me,' 1 thought, 'he won't even look at me.' And 1 felt it so
IllJi(:h at last that I wondered at myself for being so frightened of a
boy. ,HIl get him in my clutches and laugh at him. 1 was full of spite