Word: alyosha
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Dates: during 1956-1956
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...with these questions, the Outsider's horizon clouds over with the problem of evil. Dostoevsky, in The Brothers Karamazov, reduced it to its classic essence, the tortured cry of a single innocent child. If the order of the universe depends on that cry, argues Ivan with his brother Alyosha, "I don't accept God's world," and "I most respectfully return him the entrance ticket." Neither Dostoevsky nor other Outsiders, according to Wilson, are rebels without a cause; they want desperately to find a "way of salvation" that will allow them to accept God's world...