Book 5, Chapter 4 (Rebellion)
Ivan's stories of the tortured child and the general who sets dogs on a serf boy.
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From The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Ivan's catalog of atrocities against children frames the novel's central theological challenge: can any future harmony justify the suffering of innocents?
Book 5, Chapter 4
If the sufferings of children go to swell the sum of sufferings which was necessary to pay for truth, then I protest that the truth is not worth such a price.Read in Books4Free →
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