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Tag Archives: Dostoyevsky

Reflections of an Old Saint: Dostoyevsky’s Father Zossima

Posted on April 26, 2018May 4, 2018 by Mike Mason

My favorite character in literature is Father Zossima, the saintly old monk who forms the spiritual center of gravity in Dostoyevsky’s last and greatest novel, The Brothers Karamazov. On his deathbed, in the climactic scene of the first half of the book, Zossima reflects in the following words on his childhood and on the biblical story of  Job:

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