The Cosmic Library

Adam Colman

The Cosmic Library explores massive books in order to explore everything else. Here, books that can seem overwhelming—books of dreams, infinity, mysteries—turn out to be intensely accessible, offering so many different ways to read them and think with them. Season one considered Finnegans Wake; in season two, it was 1,001 Nights. Season three journeyed through and beyond the Hebrew Bible. In season four, we considered Journey to the West. For season five, we talk about a kind of writing that's filled many massive books: the American short story. Season six: The Brothers Karamazov.

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The Cosmic Library

Episodes (36)

May 14, 2025 6.5 Karamazov Season: Where Parallels Converge
May 7, 2025 6.4 Karamazov Season: Math Dreams
Apr 30, 2025 6.3 Karamazov Season: Philosophical Phrenzy

The Cosmic Library

May 14, 2025
17½ minutes
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By now, it's clear that The Brothers Karamazov sits comfortably on the shelf of books of infinity, books that can never be completed. It is, for one thing, only the first part of a plan Dostoevsky had for much more. But this novel also emphasizes incompleteness, drives toward potential rather than anything that might be perfectly established on the page. In episode four, we talked about incompleteness theorems, finding a mathematical dimension to some of our literary notions. And in The Brothers Karamazov, no system of thought is complete on its own. Characters also change each other con...

The Cosmic Library

6.5 Karamazov Season: Where Parallels Converge

Adam Colman

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