The Grand Inquisitor - Paperback

by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (Translator), Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Author)

"The Grand Inquisitor" is a poem in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov (1879-1880). It is recited by Ivan, who questions the possibility of a personal and benevolent God, to his brother Alyosha, 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 its fundamental ambiguity.

Author Biography

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (11 November 1821 - 9 February 1881), was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher.