The Grand Inquisitor: By Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- ISBN-10
- 1983923265
- ISBN-13
- 9781983923265
- Series
- The Grand Inquisitor
- Pages
- 38
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-01-17
- Author
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Description
"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 Alexei (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.Scholars cite Friedrich Schiller's play Don Carlos (1787) as a major inspiration for Dostoyevsky's Grand Inquisitor, while also noting that "The sources of the legend are extraordinarily varied and complex."
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