The Grand Inquisitor

The Grand Inquisitor is a poem (a story within a story) inside Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880). It is recited by Ivan Karamazov, 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 id...