You do know that Dostoevsky was very anti-Catholic right? The Grand Inquisitor section is a giant bash of the Catholic Church.
-—You do know that Dostoevsky was very anti-Catholic right? The Grand Inquisitor section is a giant bash of the Catholic Church.-—
It was a while ago, and I can’t remember the arguments presented, but I don’t remember finding anything particularly compelling —perhaps because I was familiar with the true history of the Inquisition. It seemed to me that Dostoevsky had swallowed the “black legend” of the Inquisition. I actually thought it was one of the weaker chapters of the book, but I can understand the appeal to skeptical, contemporary audiences and critics.
Anyway, by the time I got that far in the story, I was already sold on the archetypal brothers, particularly the protagonist and Christ figure, Alyosha (sp?), and Dostoyevsky’s insights into fallen human nature. I’ve yet to read any novelist as wise.