The Grand Inquisitor

By Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A captivating story about the price of human freedom.

“Without a clear perception of his reasons for living, man will never consent to live, and will rather destroy himself than tarry on earth, though he be surrounded with bread.”-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Grand Inquisitor

Part of “The Brothers Karamazov”, this is an important short section because of its ideas about freedom and human nature. The central character in this work is a Grand Inquisitor who arrests Jesus.
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• Language: English
• Publisher: Xist Publishing
• Release date: Mar 17, 2016
• ISBN: 9781681957111

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881) was a Russian author and journalist. He spent four years in prison, endured forced military service and was nearly executed for the crime of reading works forbidden by the government. He battled a gambling addiction that once left him a beggar, and he suffered ill health, including epileptic seizures. Despite these challenges, Dostoevsky wrote fiction possessed of groundbreaking, even daring, social and psychological insight and power. Novels like Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Brothers Karamazov, have won the author acclaim from figures ranging from Franz Kafka to Ernest Hemingway, Friedrich Nietzsche to Virginia Woolf.

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[kcshankd · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Fantastic edition of the terrible parable. The Inquisitor's words vibrate on the page - one can almost smell the brimstone.