It is recited by Ivan Karamazov, who questions the possibility of a personal and benevolent God, to his brother Alexei (Alyosha), a novice monk. ' The Grand Inquisitor' is a poem ( a story within a story) inside Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880). Poem, parable, philosophical fiction, story within a story Standalone copy of the chapter 'The Grand Inquisitor'
