BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//GayOut//Event Export//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:179003@gayout.com DTSTAMP:20260815T185837Z DTSTART:20260927T170000Z DTEND:20260927T190000Z SUMMARY:Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Brothers Karamazov DESCRIPTION:It is not an exaggeration to say The Brothers Karamazov is on e of the most influential novels ever written. It is a novel that has a h istory of dividing opinions\\, regularly hitting banned book lists: Writt en in the mid-late 19th century\\, contemporary Christians believed the n ovel was atheistic\\, and contemporary atheists believed the novel is too Christian. Regardless of which it is\\, the novel is certainly an attemp t to tear down established norms and create a blueprint for a new societa l order in Russia. Dostoevsky himself spent time in a labor camp earlier in his life\\, accused of various crimes including fears from the Ministr y of Internal Affairs that he was a member of a revolutionary literary gr oup.\\nIf Tolstoy’s War and Peace\\, written a decade earlier\\, was an attempt to capture the totality of political and interpersonal life\\, t hen The Brothers Karamazov is an attempt to capture the totality of inter nal life. It is a project with no less of a goal than creating a new soci ety and new religion through the demonstration of the tripartite souls of the titular brothers: Aloysha\\, the exuberant\\, youthful monk-in-train ing\\; Ivan\\, the depressed\\, ruminating academic\\, and Dimitri\\, the eldest\\, sensualist\\, and self-destructive soldier. Each character rep resents a period of life and a way of looking at the world\\; though arch etypes\\, they also feel like people you may have known. When their miser able and cruel estranged father is murdered\\, all three have to face his self-destructive aspects in themselves: Why are modern humans miserable when we know we could be happy\\, and why can’t we seem to get out of o ur own way? And who among Fyodor Zaramazov’s orbit killed him\\, and wh y?\\nWe will be reading the Peaver and Volokhonsky translation\\, itself a major turning point in the novel’s popularity in English\\, shedding some of the stuffy\\, plodding\\, confusing language of earlier translati ons in favor a readable and populist style. The Brothers Karamazov is a b ig novel full of big ideas\\, and there is no better way to experience it than in a group.\\nRequired Texts: The Brothers Karamazov\\, Bicentennia l Edition\\, trans. Peaver and Volokhonsky \\nReading schedule:\\nWeek 1: 1-173 (Part I)\\nWeek 2: 173-300 (Part II\\, Books 4-5)\\nWeek 3: 300-47 2 (Part II\\, Book 6 –\\; Part III\\, Books 7-8)\\nWeek 4: 472- 545 (Part III\\, Book 9)\\nWeek 5: 545- 696 (Part IV\\, Books 10-11)\\nWeek 6 : 696-825 (Part IV Book 12 &\\; Epilogue)\\nAccess Program\\nWe want our writing classes and seminars to be accessible to everyone\\, regardle ss of income and background. We understand that our tuition structure can present obstacles for some people. Our Access Program offers writing cla ss and seminar tuitions at a reduced rate. Most writing classes have at l east one access spot available.\\nPlease apply here for access rate tuiti on. Contact Susan Moore at susan@literary-arts.org if you have questions. \\nLiaison position\\nEvery in-person class and seminar at Literary Arts has one liaison position. Liaisons perform specific duties for each class meeting. If you are a liaison for a class or seminar\\, the full amount of your tuition is covered by Literary Arts.\\nApply here for the liaison position.\\nhttps://www.gayout.com/usa-canada/united-states/portland-or/ events/fyodor-dostoevsky-the-brothers-karamazov-2026-09-27 LOCATION:literary-arts.org URL:https://www.gayout.com/usa-canada/united-states/portland-or/events/fyodor-dostoevsky-the-brothers-karamazov-2026-09-27 STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR