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This season of temptation.(LENT 2007 - meditation on The Brothers Karamazov)

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From: National Catholic Reporter
Date: 20070302
Author:O'Donovan, Leo J.

The great Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky left the abstract liberalism of his earlier Utopian socialism forever behind him when he returned to Russia in 1859 after years of imprisonment and exile in Siberia. There he had come before the reality of God, the dignity of his immortal soul, and the immensely precious but also fearsome gift of freedom. From 1864 on, he developed a tragic, religiously conservative view of human life that anticipated many of the deepest questions of the century that followed. But in The Brothers Karamazov, his last and greatest novel, which he began in ...

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