Grand Inquisitor

Vividly imagining the second coming and capture of Christ during the time of the Spanish Inquisition, this parable recounted in The Brothers Karamazov is a profound, nuanced exploration of faith, suffering, human nature and free will. Included here too are Dostoyevsky''s powerful and disturbing writings about his time in exile at a Siberian prison camp.

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