The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Easton Press, 1979

Description: A beautiful book from Easton Press, this one from the 100 Greatest Books Ever Written series. Number one on the list of five best books on the eternal questions in the WSJ chosen by Keith Jennings, the host of Jeopardy (https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/five-best-books-on-the-eternal-questions-1b440144): 1. Almost every eternal question is addressed somewhere in the 360,000 words of “The Brothers Karamazov,” because it is one of those ambitious 19th-century novels, like “Moby-Dick” or “Middlemarch.” These books somehow pack in absolutely everything—all of human experience, even the things that contradict the other things—between their covers. But at the heart of this book is the question of free will, especially in the famous “Grand Inquisitor” chapter. This parable imagines Christ returning to earth, only to be sentenced to execution by the church, which now takes a dim view of the freedom of conscience he preached. What good, the Inquisitor asks Jesus, is an impossible ideal like free will when people are weak and stupid and starving? The story is told by Ivan Karamazov, the middle of the three brothers, a rationalist intrigued and tormented by the nihilistic belief that without God, “all things are permitted.” Is this free will? Or is his younger brother, Alyosha, correct that true freedom is only possible as part of a life of faith? PHX5/0ju3

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Location: Tucson, Arizona

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