The Grand Inquisitor
Fyodor Dostoevsky
32 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 1599869535
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Language: English
Publish: 1157698800000
19th CenturyClassic LiteratureClassicsFictionLiteratureNovelsPhilosophyRussiaRussian LiteratureShort Stories
The Grand Inquisitor is a section from The Brothers Karamazov, which is a literary work by Russian author/philosopher Fyodor Dostoevsky. The central character in this work is a Grand Inquisitor who arrests Jesus. A Grand Inquisitor, or Inquisitor Generalis in German is the individual who leads an Inquisition, just like Spanish Dominican Tomas de Torquemada who was the official in charge of the Spanish Inquisition.