THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV
11 September 2011
A rare chance to see the 1958 adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel, a book that inspired many of John Latham's early works and ideas
The three Karamazov brothers, Mitya, Ivan and Alyosha, were used by John Latham as examples of individuals with different time bases, or perspectives on the universe; biological, rational and intuitive.
The Brothers Karamazov (dir Richard Brooks, 1958, 145 mins, PG) stars Yul Brynner as Alyosha, the eldest Karamazov brother.
"Set in Ryevsk, Russia, 1870, tensions abound in the Karamazov family. Fyodor is a wealthy libertine who holds his purse strings tightly. His four grown sons include Dmitri, the eldest, an elegant officer, always broke and at odds with his father, betrothed to Katya, herself lovely and rich. The other brothers include a sterile aesthete, a factotum who is a bastard, and a monk.
Family tensions erupt when Dmitri falls in love with one of his father's mistresses, the coquette Grushenka. Acts of violence lead to the story's conclusion: trials of honour, conscience, forgiveness, and redemption." (Plot summary from imdb.com)
John Latham Book Relief Triad (2003)
The three Karamazov brothers, Mitya, Ivan and Alyosha, were used by John Latham as examples of individuals with different time bases, or perspectives on the universe; biological, rational and intuitive. Here they are represented by the three elements in his Book Relief Triad, part of the permanent display at Flat Time House.
Lee J. Cobb, Yul Brynner, William Shatner, and Richard Basehart. The Brothers Karamazov dir. Richard Brooks (1958)