How to Bring Philosophy to the Screen? The Case of The Brothers Karamasov
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https://doi.org/10.18485/kis.2025.57.186.18Keywords:
The Brothers Karamazov, F. M. Dostoevsky, Richard Brooks, Ivan Pyryev, atheism, antitheism, love, the screen adaptation of literary workAbstract
Conceptual basis of the novel The Brothers Karamazov could be traced trough two levels: a) the atheistic-antitheistic one, which, as two different motivational streams, is initiated by Ivan Karamazov and b) the paradise perspective grounded in forgiveness and love, which is narratively and philosophically shaped in the chapter The Russian Monk, and, implicitly, through the characters of Alyosha and Dimitri Karamazov. The aim of the research is to determine whether, to what extent, and in what way these two levels are present in the American and Russian screen adaptations of The Brothers Karamazov. We will therefore concentrate on the American film adaptation of this novel, directed by Richard Brooks in 1958, and the Russian film adaptation, directed by Ivan Pyryev in 1969. Consequently, we will also examine to what extent the medium conditions the structure of presenting and communicating complex ideas, and how this effects the overall meaning of the (literary/film) work of art.
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