The Brothers Karamazov (1880) is Dostoevsky's final and greatest novel, exploring faith, doubt, free will, moral responsibility, and the existence of God through the story of three brothers and the murder of their father. It contains the Grand Inquisitor chapter, one of the most debated passages in Western literature.
Definitive literary exploration of theodicy, faith under doubt, and the moral consequences of atheism; the Grand Inquisitor as the archetypal challenge to Christ; Ivan's rebellion as the intellectual refusal of God's world.
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