
A wandering stranger arrives in the sun‑scorched streets of Seville, bathing the crowd in a quiet, compassionate light. He heals the blind, raises a dead child, and the people crown him with flowers and song, convinced they have witnessed a miracle. Yet the celebration is abruptly cut short when the towering figure of the Grand Inquisitor – a frail, ninety‑year‑old cardinal draped in a simple monk’s habit – steps forward, his dark eyes flickering with a concealed fire.
The Inquisitor orders the mysterious guest’s swift capture, dragging him into the vaulted depths of the ancient tribunal. In the oppressive silence of the stone cell, a single lantern trembles as the stranger is left alone, his silence heavy with unanswered questions. As night settles over the city, listeners are drawn into a tense confrontation between unbounded compassion and rigid authority, setting the stage for a profound moral debate.
Language
de
Duration
~44 minutes (42K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Norbert H. Langkau, Jana Srna and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Release date
2011-12-18
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1821–1881
Best known for turning guilt, faith, freedom, and desperation into unforgettable fiction, this Russian novelist wrote with unusual psychological depth. His life was marked by hardship, political danger, illness, and debt, and those pressures helped shape some of literature’s most intense and human novels.
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