And could anything truer be said than what he revealed to Thee in three questions and what Thou didst reject, and what in the books is called “the temptation”?Īnd there could not be such a fantastic creature as your Inquisitor. Inquiaitor, never, never can they feed themselves without us! And I’ll make you one promise in return for it. She sees the sinners and their punishment.
Surely you don’t suppose I am going straight off to the Jesuits, to join the men who are correcting His work? That might be one of the best passages in the poem. The people are irresistibly drawn yrand Him, they surround Him, they flock about Him, follow Him. It was deeply moving to me, reading this in college, and I have kept the little pamphlet-style “book” ever since. Shortly after the death of his mother in he was sent to St. They will see that we do not change the stones to bread, but in truth they will be more thankful for taking it from our hands than for the bread itself! The Grand Inquisitor is a section from The Brothers Karamazov, which is a literary work by Russian author/philosopher Fyodor Dostoevsky. A summary of Book V: Pro and Contra, Chapter 5: The Grand Inquisitor in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov. Fyodor Dostoevsky (), author of such works as Crime story, “The Grand Inquisitor,” is told by Ivan Karamazov to his younger brother Alyosha.
