by Fyodor Dostoyevsky · Penguin Group USA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780146001154
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«The Grand Inquisitor» is the parable by Fyodor Dostoyevsky published by Penguin Group USA in paperback (64 pages, in English).
Parable taken from The Brothers Karamazov: in Inquisition-era Seville, Christ returns and is arrested by the Grand Inquisitor, who reproaches him for giving men a freedom they cannot bear. Christ's silence and the old man's long accusation turn the tale into a reflection on power, faith and suffering.
English translation by David McDuff for the 1995 edition, in the Penguin 60s Classics series; the text comes from the novel The Brothers Karamazov.
For readers of Russian literature and philosophy: a brief first approach to Dostoyevsky.
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was a Russian philosopher, novelist, short-story writer, essayist and journalist. He is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in both Russian and world literature, and many of his works are considered highly influential masterpieces. Dostoevsky's literary works explore the human condition in the troubled political, social and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes. His most acclaimed novels include Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), Demons (1872), The Adolescent (1875) and The Brothers Karamazov (1880). His Notes from Underground, a novella published in 1864, is considered one of the first works of existentialist literature.
