The Grand Inquisitor (Annotated with Biography)

By Fyodor Dostoyevsky & Constance Garnett

Release : 2011-06-20

Genre : Fiction & Literature, Books, Classics

Kind : ebook

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The Grand Inquisitor is a parable told by Ivan to Alyosha in Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov. Ivan and Alyosha are brothers; Ivan questions the possibility of a personal, benevolent God and Alyosha is a novice monk.

The Grand Inquisitor is an important part of the novel and one of the best-known passages in modern literature because of its ideas about human nature and freedom, and because of its fundamental ambiguity.

The Grand Inquisitor (Annotated with Biography)

By Fyodor Dostoyevsky & Constance Garnett

Release : 2011-06-20

Genre : Fiction & Literature, Books, Classics

Kind : ebook

(0 ratings)
The Grand Inquisitor is a parable told by Ivan to Alyosha in Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov. Ivan and Alyosha are brothers; Ivan questions the possibility of a personal, benevolent God and Alyosha is a novice monk.

The Grand Inquisitor is an important part of the novel and one of the best-known passages in modern literature because of its ideas about human nature and freedom, and because of its fundamental ambiguity.

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