The Grand Inquisitor
32 pages
|Published: 1 Jan 1879
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ISBN: 9781599869537
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.
Publication date: 8 September 2006
Description
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.