The Brothers Karamazov - Fjodor Dostojevski Marietje d'Hane-Scheltema The book became an instant

The book became an instant bestseller on its publication in 1998 and won the Forward Prize for Poetry in the same year

their profound awareness of the paradoxes of being

Voor haar houdt het daar op

besluit ze al haar intieme gesprekken met hem te noteren

terwijl ze steeds dichter om de kern cirkelt van wat het betekent om je te verbinden

The Brothers Karamazov - Fjodor Dostojevski Marietje d'Hane-Scheltema The book became an instantThe murder of brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov changes the lives of his sons irrevocably: Mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with his father immediately places him under suspicion for parricide; Ivan, the intellectual, driven to breakdown; the spiritual Alyosha, who tries to heal the family's rifts; and the shadowy figure of their bastard half brother, Smerdyakov. Dostoyevsky's dark masterwork evokes a world where the lines between innocence