The Brothers Karamazov shares thematic material with Notes From The Underground and Crime and Punishment. Additionally, it has had a profound influence on novelists ever since its publication. The existentialist Martin Heidegger considers the novel to be one of the most important sources in the development of his seminal work, Being and Time. William Faulkner says that it is his greatest influence, next to the Bible and Shakespeare, and that no American novel has come close to the heights reached by Dostoevsky.
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