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"The Brothers Karamazov" is the last novel by the Russian literary giant Fyodor Dostoevsky, completed in 1880. The novel revolves around the old Karamazov and his three sons - Dmitry, Ivan, Alyosha, and the illegitimate son Smerdyakov. It tells a story about murder, faith, morality and the struggle of human nature. Through family conflicts and the mystery of patricide, Dostoevsky explores philosophical propositions such as the boundaries of human freedom and morality, and the conflict between reason and faith. Chapters such as "The Religious Grand Inquisitor" in the book have become classic fragments in literary history. The novel not only shows the complexity and contradictions of human nature, but also predicts the spiritual crisis of modern society, and is known as "the pinnacle of human thought".

The psychological report of a crime reaches all the deep activities of the human soul. Cao Guowei's classic translation, newly revised in 2025, is a professor at East China Normal University, a senior translator, and the winner of the China Russian Education Outstanding Contribution Award! In the slums of St. Petersburg lived young Raskolnikov, a sensitive law student. He dropped out of school because he couldn't afford the tuition, and a letter from his mother suggested that his sister had made a huge sacrifice for him. In order to get rid of this miserable situation, and to test whether he was a superman who could control the destiny of mankind, he killed the old woman who was a loan shark. The novel uses this criminal case as a framework to touch the deepest part of Russian life in the 1860s, showing people's strong desire to restore humanity when society is stagnant. Dostoevsky called it a "psychological report of a crime."