The grand inquisitor : a graphic novel based on the story from Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The brothers Karamazov /
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 w...
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| Language: | English |
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Walden, New York :
Plough Publishing House,
[2020]
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | 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. |
| Physical Description: | 37 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 26 cm |
| ISBN: | 0874863538 9780874863536 |