![]() Not that I always appreciated the religious-themed passages. ![]() ![]() And to give Dostoyevsky his due, he props up no straw man-it's a powerful indictment of God. It's the speech of (and a story by) the atheist Ivan Karamazov he tells to his devout brother Aloysha. My introduction to Dostoyevsky was an excerpt from this novel, the chapter "The Grand Inquisitor." And not in a literature course, but a philosophy course, where it was used to raise issues about the nature of God and the problem of evil. ![]() Show More of not just Russian, but world literature, one of the candidates for greatest novel ever written. ![]()
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