The Men of Dostoyevsky! Who is your favourite Karamazov brother?
I love all three of them, plus the father! I even have a soft spot for Smerdyakov. They are all very clever and red-blooded.
Dmitri is probably the one I feel the most kinship for. He is total passionate abandon, but with an honest and noble soul.
Ivan is the kinkiest. Chilly intellectual who falls in love with that transparently failure of a seductress, Katerina, of all people.
Alyosha is sweetness and light.
Fyodor is cannily intelligent and a good natured crude barbarian.
Smerdyakov is weird beyond belief, a portrait of a madman, but a complete fascination.
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | November 30, 2018 12:45 AM
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They're all pussies next to my darling Vronsky.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | February 10, 2016 11:53 PM
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I prefer the flying ones.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | February 11, 2016 12:50 AM
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Keith. David was gross. Robert was sort of sweet looking too.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | April 2, 2018 6:38 AM
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[quote]The Men of Dostoyevsky!
Why didn't Playgirl ever do a pictorial like this?
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | April 2, 2018 5:35 PM
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I want to play Grushenka!
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | April 2, 2018 5:54 PM
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Yul, of course.
Wasn't Albert Salmi one of them in the movie? He eventually shot himself and his wife.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | May 2, 2018 5:14 AM
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My monocle popped out when i read this!
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | May 2, 2018 5:36 AM
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Oh God, the movie, the one with Yul Brynner and William Shatner as two of the brothers!
Look, I love Yul, but Shatner was so massively miscast that I started sniggering every time he came on.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | May 2, 2018 8:05 AM
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Which brother died of shame and embarrassment? That'd be me
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | May 2, 2018 8:15 AM
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The father was the funniest
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | May 2, 2018 2:40 PM
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I guess the Russkies get tired of trolling about Trump on occasion.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | May 2, 2018 3:02 PM
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Ivan is the only brother Dostoyevsky does not describe.
My fave characters were the father, batshit crazy Lise and delusions Katerina.
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | November 29, 2018 2:09 PM
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Yul was very well cast as Dmitri. Albert Salmi was perfect as Smedyakov.
William Shatner appeared to be playing Moses.
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | November 29, 2018 2:11 PM
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My great fear is that Andrew Davies will write an adaptation for the BBC and remove all the Christianity and Russianness from it. His WAR AND PEACE proves that he does not get the Russian spirit at all.
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | November 30, 2018 12:27 AM
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Dmitri and Grushenka!
I posted this elsewhere but I might as well make another plug for the best edition of this timeless classic.
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | November 30, 2018 12:32 AM
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Agree on the BBC War and Peace. Then I tried to watch the 1967 Soviet version and was repulsed by the Soviet Pierre. That's NOT Pierre, that's an ogre.
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | November 30, 2018 12:34 AM
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Oh, my. I’m speechless r23.
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | November 30, 2018 12:45 AM
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