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    The Grand Inquisitor (dramatic reading)
    The Grand Inquisitor (dramatic reading)
    The Grand Inquisitor (dramatic reading)
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    The Grand Inquisitor (dramatic reading)

    Written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    About this audiobook

    The Grand Inquisitor is a parable told by Ivan to Alyosha in Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880). Ivan and Alyosha are brothers; Ivan questions the possibility of a personal, benevolent God and Alyosha is 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 ideas about human nature and freedom, and because of its fundamental ambiguity. In the tale, Christ comes back to earth in Seville at the time of the Inquisition. He performs a number of miracles (echoing miracles from the Gospels). The people recognize him and adore him, but he is arrested by Inquisition leaders and sentenced to be burnt to death the next day. The Grand Inquisitor visits him in his cell to tell him that the Church no longer needs him. The main portion of the text is the Inquisitor explaining to Jesus why his return would interfere with the mission of the church. (Summary by Wikipedia)

    Cast
    Narrator: Ruth Golding
    Ivan Karamazov: om123
    Aloysha Karamazov: Martin Geeson
    The Grand Inquisitor: Denny Sayers

    Audio edited by Todd

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
    The Grand Inquisitor (dramatic reading)
    Author

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881) was a Russian novelist and philosopher whose works examined the human psyche of the nineteenth century. Dostoyevsky is considered one of the greatest writers in world literature, with titles such as Crime and Punishment; Notes from Underground, one of the first existential novellas ever written; and Poor Folk, Russia’s first “social novel.”

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      Very difficult to understand narrator .. great material. Too bad