#aleksey karamazov

[raskolkitten]

sequel alyosha

[omerseyfofan]

ALYOSHA SKETCHES BECAUSE I NEED SOME LIGHT IN THIS DARK FUCKING TRIAL I GENUINELY CAN'T DO THIS ANYMIRE

[karamazovanon]

you cannot exhume a soul

— "Either he will rise up in the light of truth, or … perish in hatred, taking vengeance on himself and on everyone else for his having served that in which he does not believe" (The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky tr. McDuff, p. 837)

[vorakh]

disco elysium written in the brothers karamazov style and the brothers karamazov written in disco elysium style

[homuraimpersonater]

I read brothers karamazov today, reread it. And I understood it better. How nice. It was the part where they go to the monastery and fyodor pavlovich does his buffoonery. And the women of faith get blessed by the Elder. That poor mother nastasyushka's story was so heart wrenching, because it was dostoevsky's personal story about his lost son, and it made me very sad and pensive for a long time. I paid close attention to the words the Elder spoke to that lady, he said that she should weep, and feel no need to be consoled, but remember that her son was with God, and was an angel, and was looking down at her always and rejoicing.. that he was not really dead, and was always with her and her husband. All the mother wanted was to see her son again, just from a distance, just look at him one more time, and she couldn't have that no matter what. So there was nothing really, except these consolations that the Elder or anybody could give her. Well if such a woman had come to me with her pain, I would be unable to bear her pain myself and I'd go mute. There is nothing that can be done, and it is very hard to tell the person to just accept it and get used to it.. but that is just what should be done in this case, after sufficiently grieving over it of course.

[litres-of-cocaine]

i think i can deal with the probability that there will never be a s4 of hannibal because i only discovered after finishing the 960 pages of the brothers karamazov that aloysha becoming a revolutionary was only supposed to happen in the sequel. that was never written because dostoyesky died the year before he was going to write it.

[nedlittle]

I will never not be unwell about your post about Alyosha that you tagged “when you lose someone you love like that you have to create a way for them to never die” because HE. Also where did the whole idea of Alyosha kills the tsar come from? I read the book over a year ago so there might be some stuff I’m forgetting

i had to go back and find that post bc i was shocked that i was coherent enough about fedya d to articulate a single thought

in the author's preface, dostoevsky says "that while i have just one biography, i have two novels. the main novel is the second one--about the activities of my hero in our time, that is, in our present, current moment." (page 3 in the p&v translation)

the first novel is tbk proper, which takes place 13 years ago, placing it in 1866. our main source for tbk 2: alyosha kills the tsar comes from an article by james l. rice called "dostoevsky's endgame: the projected sequel to the brothers karamazov" which references a letter dostoevsky wrote during the novel's serialization:

"i can only say that aleksei in time becomes the village schoolmaster and, influenced by some sort of special psychological processes at work in his soul, he actually arrives at the idea of assassinating the tsar."

of course, dostoevsky died months after tbk was published in its complete form, at a time when people were trying to assassinate alexander ii, like, every two weeks. so that's our source for tbk: electric boogaloo existing. the other big source is from a guy named aleksei sergeevich suvorin, one of dotoevsky's friends, whose diary was published in 1923. here's him on the subject:

"he [alyosha] would commit a political crime. he would be executed. he would have sought the truth and in those seekings he would, naturally, have become a revolutionary."

we also know that the provisional title for tbk 2: who gave the baby a gun was "the children", referring to the titular boys of book 10 of tbk. according to dostoevsky's widow anna, alyosha "was to endure a complex psychological drama with lise [...] marry [her], then leave her for grushenka"*. there's more about how this sequel would work on a thematic and psychological level in the article and its sister article "foreshadowing the karamazov sequel" (also by rice). this isn't relevant but rice essentially diagnosis alyosha with victorian woman disease by calling him a "textbook case of male hysteria," which i enjoy.

so that's all we know about the hypothetical sequel, and i think about it a lot regarding a biographical reading of the novel because i think it's so interesting to take a character, based on your son who died of a hereditary disease you gave him, who you say is "like an angel, nothing touches [him]," and then plan a sequel where he is not untouchable and undergoes the same disillusionment and trauma as you experienced as a young man, only he dies in the end. and that's not even getting into the other biographical details like dostoevsky's own father dying under mysterious maybe-murder circumstances in 1839! or the fact that he looked at the loathsome father-figure he created for tbk whose hereditary "stain" he passes down to his sons as a black smear over their name and was like yeah i'm going to name him after ME. fyodor what was going on in your head.

i don't know, i sort of want to make a whole other post about this. he created a world in which his son survives and is loved so desperately by everyone he meets, but even still cannot save him, even in fiction. something something sons doomed to become their fathers.

tl, dr:

*this is from the rice article but is specifically referencing nina hoffman's interview with anna in 1898.

[iloveuthemost]

I don't ever want to fuck but not in the lame asexual kind of way but in the spiritually connected-avant grade-aleksei karamazov kind of way

[woodsteingirl]

my two cents on the do you find catholic priests attractive topic is i am weird enough about religion that i do not and also it makes me uncomfortable sometimes 😐…. i see it mentioned and i am about one second away from metaphorically covering my ears and eyes and going “lalalala” so i do not think of it. like aleksei karamazov 🤷

[cohendyke]

im dmitri im ivan im aleksey and im pavel

the brothers karamazov

[aria-i-adagio]

Tagged by @atypicalacademic - tagging @hoochieblues, @niffty24, and @motherofqups (plus, anyone who wants to do this)

Do you play an instrument?

Alas, no.

• Favourite book characters?

Why would you do this to me?  My favorite fictional darling of the moment is Anders.  That’s my boy.  My boy onto whom I project all my hypomanic despair and desire to burn the system down and start from the ground up.  That boy.

St. Eugenia of Rome, St. Thekla, and St. Mary of Egypt are my peeps in the fight to fuck with limiting constructions of gender.

Any number of Katharine Anne Porter’s characters.

• What’s your star sign?

Virgo.

• Favourite colour schemes?

Well... I’m painting the two main rooms in my house dark, dark red and blue.  But my bathroom is going to be purple, and the guest bath is going to be 1960s/70s green, so.... All the colors?

• Naps or long sleep?

Long sleep.  It takes me 30 min to an hour to fall asleep in the first place, so a ‘nap’ is a foreign concept.

• What languages do you speak?

English.  I can kinda, sorta speak Russian, but I am very out of practice, and I was never more than vaguely proficient.  I speak very good redneck, and curiously enough, I’ve determined it is rather easier to transliterate how ‘does that count’ in redneck by using Cyrillic: жат койт?

• Dreams/aspirations?

I want to write stories that people love.  I want to contribute to my community, which in the case of rural American generally is underserved and in the case of queer rural America very underserved.

• Long hair or Short Hair?

So, I had very long hair (waist length) hair in high school.  It got progressively shorter until I had an undercut for several years.  At the beginning of the pandemic, I started letting it grow out, and I’ve decided to let it get back to waist length for funzies.  I still have about 6 inches to go.  And I do need to get it trimmed and shaped up a bit at some point in the meantime.

• Tea or coffee?

Both, but I drink more coffee. Especially right now. Picking up a third class to teach was both brilliant and a MISTAKE.

• Bring a book character to life or go into a fictional world?

Oh, jeez, this is almost as bad as the first.  I’ve had some whiskey, so I want to go drinking with Dmitri Karamazov (and flirt with Grusha a bit), then have a conversation with Ivan about the nature of good and evil, and then go kill the Tsar with Aleksey.  Yet the article there was singular, so... hmm...Fr. Emilio Sanchez from The Sparrow.  I think the world would be a better place.  (Also, I desperately need to give that man a hug, but only with his permission.)

[ivan-fyodorovich-k]

'I say, Aleksey Fyodorovich, do you know the manner in which people go mad?' Ivan asked quite suddenly in a quiet voice in which there was no longer any annoyance, but rather a most simple-hearted curiosity. 'No, I don't; I suppose that there are many different kinds of madness.' 'And can one observe in oneself that one is going mad?'

from The Brothers Karamazov

[pokamot]

Ben, Midjourney ve Dostoyevski bir Kapak Ürettik!

Bütün özneler yerli yerinde, doğru ve eksiksiz. Ben, Midjourney ve Dostoyevski bir kitap kapağı ürettik.

Yazı yazabilen yapay zeka ChatGPT ile karşılaşıp tanıştıktan sonra beraber kafa patlatabileceğimize vakıf olduk. Kafamdaki proje kitap karakterlerini resmetmekti.

Ona Kürk Mantolu Madonna karakteri Maria Puder'in kitapta nasıl yansıtıldığını sordum. Ilımlı bir hanımefendi olduğunu biliyordum. Neye benzediğini unutmuşum.

Fakat kitapta yeterince dış görünüşü tasvir edilmediği için ilk deneme başarısızlıkla sonuçlandı.

Tekrar denedim.

İnce Memed'in nasıl gözüktüğü bilgisini istedim. Ardından bu bilgileri çatır çatır "prompt" olarak Midjourney'e verdim. "Abim hallediyorum." dedi.

Çevirinin azizliğine uğradım. Muhtemelen esmerliği black skin olarak kastetmiş Google'ın ücra köşesindeki çevirmen. Sonuç olarak elime Compton'dan fırlamış bir İnce Memed verdi. Olur, olur yeriz.

Ben, Midjourney ve Dostoyevski bir kitap kapağı ürettik.

Tasvir yeteneği güçlü bir kaleme ihtiyacım vardı. Fyodor Dostoyevski 19. yüzyıldan kalemiyle destek oldu. Karamazov Kardeşler'in ana karakterinin tipini merak ettim.

Karşınızda Aleksey Fyodoroviç Karamazov!

Ben, Midjourney ve Dostoyevski bir kitap kapağı ürettik.

Bu tasvirden daha çok memnun kaldım. Özellikle belirtmememe rağmen kıyafetleri ve arka plan kitabın atmosferine uyumlu çıktı. Bir deneme daha yapıp elimdekileri Canva'da kitap kapağı haline getirdim.

Hızımı alamadım, kendimi de Pixar karakterine çevirdim alakasız...

Birkaç saatte;

kitap kapağı üzerinden grafik tasarımcıların,

ilüstrasyon üzerinden ilüstratörlerin,

3d tasarımcıların,

yazarların elinden mesleği nasıl alınır. Deneyimlemiş oldum.

Sonuç olarak bütün bunları birbirine bağlayıp sağ tık yaparken elim değdi. Ama o kadar. Teknoloji kapıyı çaldı. Hep bahsettiğimiz o gün, geldi.

Meraklısına Midjourney fiyatlandırmasını ekledim. Bizim asgari ücretimiz bile yeterli.

Neyse;

Ben, Midjourney ve Dostoyevski bir kitap kapağı ürettik!

İlginize teşekkürler...

[lealbatross95]

a few weeks ago I finished reading "The Karamazov Brothers" and ... wow ?? new favorite book ?? almost. I wanted to try to put a face to the 3 (4) brothers of the story based on the descriptions I found in the book. I ask any other expert of this story: Does Ivan have any descriptions of what he looks like? I have searched and researched in the various chapters, but I have not found much. If by chance I missed any I would be happy to read it!

[bookworm-tania]

My sons, the brothers Karamazov!

Alësa may be baby, but Ivan is the best brother, cannot change my mind.

I'm a simple woman, either I post about DN or some other fandom, or I post about books that are well over 150 years old - usually by Dostoevsky.

[schlongusbobongus]

aleksey "life is peachy" fyodorovitch karamazov