The Karamarazov Brothers -- Part 4 + Epilogue

Happy Thanksgiving and merry Christmas! We are meeting to discuss the last (fourth) part of the Karamazov Brothers novel, mainly dedicated to the jury trial of Mitya and the Smerdyakov controversy. There is also an online discussion on 12/05 at https://www.meetup.com/Russian-Classics-English-Translations/events/282074067/ — you can attend both if you want.

As the annotation puts it, "Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel, The Karamazov Brothers (1880) is both a brilliantly told crime story and a passionate philosophical debate. The dissolute landowner Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is murdered; his sons — the atheist intellectual Ivan, the hot-blooded Dmitry, and the saintly novice Alyosha — are all involved at some level. Brilliantly bound up with this psychological drama is Dostoevsky's intense and disturbing exploration of many deeply felt ideas about the existence of God, freedom of will, the collective nature of guilt, and the disastrous consequences of rationalism."

We are meeting at Printers, 320 California Avenue, Palo Alto (California Avenue Caltrain station). It's exactly one Caltrain station south of Blue Bottle.

Links:
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/28054/28054-h/28054-h.htm (translation by Constance Garnett, public domain)
https://www.amazon.com/Brothers-Karamazov-Illustrated-Evergreen-Classics-ebook/dp/B07NDDDXPG/ (Kindle)
https://www.amazon.com/Karamazov-Brothers-Oxford-Worlds-Classics/dp/0192835092 (paperback)
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/brothers-karamazov-fyodor-dostoyevsky/1100500207 (paperback)
https://archive.org/details/brothers_karamazov_1002_librivox (MP3 audiobook, public domain)

P.S. If you want to celebrate the Bell Day, law and free will with us, bring a bell. We'll also have spare ones.
The history and rules are here: https://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-Russian-Eastern-EU-poetry-exchange/events/236103549/