The grand inquisitor :
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Russian Publisher: Walden, New York : Plough Publishing House, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 37 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 26 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0874863538; 9780874863536Subject(s): Jesus Christ -- Comic books, strips, etc | Inquisition -- Comic books, strips, etc | Karamazov, Ivan (Fictitious character) -- Comic books, strips, etc | Brothers -- Russia -- Comic books, strips, etcGenre/Form: Parables. | Comics (Graphic works)LOC classification: PN6727.O85 | G73 2020Summary: Ivan Karamazov, after protesting a God who allows innocents to suffer, recites for his brother Alyosha a poem he has written about Jesus' reappearance on earth during the Spanish Inquisition. One of the most famous passages in modern literature, this work raises important questions about free will, human nature, religion, power, and the radically subversive way of Jesus. Publisher.
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Based on translation by Constance Garnett (New York: Macmillan, 1922).
The Grand Inquisitor is a poem (a story within a story) inside Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov. It is recited by Ivan Karamazov, who questions the possibility of a personal and benevolent God, to his brother Alyosha, a novice monk. An important part of the novel it is one of the best-known passages in modern literature because of its ideas about human nature and freedom, and its fundamental ambiguity.
Ivan Karamazov, after protesting a God who allows innocents to suffer, recites for his brother Alyosha a poem he has written about Jesus' reappearance on earth during the Spanish Inquisition. One of the most famous passages in modern literature, this work raises important questions about free will, human nature, religion, power, and the radically subversive way of Jesus. Publisher.