The Brothers Karamazov

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He lived among monks and rebelled against them to stand with the poor, the salt of the earth… He is Nikos Kazantzakis, the renowned late Greek thinker and writer. His magnificent novel, “The Brothers Karamazov”—as its translator, the late thinker Ismail Al-Mahdawi, named it—is a testament to pure creativity, and as timeless as most of Kazantzakis’s works, even though it represents his most profound intellectual and literary work. “The Brothers Karamazov” presents us with the revolutionary human condition throughout the ages. In wars and revolutions, we have fixed sides that sacrifice and pay the price, and we have open paths to fateful choices. In “The Brothers Karamazov”—as in reality—we have the commander and his soldiers, the religious figure, and the revolutionary who seeks the meaning of justice to achieve it for all, even his most bitter enemies. We also have the weak who carry out the commander’s orders and fulfill the desires of the religious figures, within a framework where the rich know their place as well as the poor. In this only Arabic translation—so far—of “The Brothers Karamazov,” the giant novelist born from the womb of philosophy, Kazantzakis meets Ismail Mahdawi, the esteemed writer and translator, a student and lover of philosophy, to produce “The Brothers Karamazov,” a precious and captivating literary work that speaks to every person who believes in truth, goodness, justice, and beauty.