The aim of this thesis is to present a synthesis of unfairly neglected aspects of corporeality in The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Mihajlovich Dostoyevsky. Bodily aspects help to complement and reaffirm the determinants of the writer's poetics, as they play an important role in the characterisation of heroes, their development within the novel, as well as in their relationships with other characters. In the theoretical part of the thesis, a broad concept of corporeality is presented, which is then specified to the representation of the body in the text and the body in Russian literature and culture. The consideration of the potential physical aspects in Dostoevsky's writings is followed by the analysis of corporeality in The Brothers Karamazov, which is divided into three sections: specific characteristics of the body and the physical behavior attributed to the main characters, gesturality with a special emphasis on the kiss and bowing gestures, and their role within the novel; and finally, the pathology of the body, which includes an analysis of the physical manifestations of fever, epilepsy and hysteria; and ends with the decaying body.