Final read-through of the ARC today - & I'm taking notes for future BookTubes, which I'll record tomorrow (🎉!).
The thing is, The Brothers Karamazov is shaped around Catholicism, so to make a humanist version I had to create a whole new cultural canon, The Sunmaster's Journey (as one species calls it), to inform my book's worldview & disagreements. Many Sunmaster tales are embedded in Children of Doro; it's easily the richest world I've ever constructed. (But more soon on all of that!) #Writing
@MLClark If by "shaped around Catholicism" you mean Dostoevski was anti-Catholic, yes. The parable of the Grand Inquisitor was specifically Romophobic.
The larger context of your post suggests that you're not differentiating between Roman Catholicism and Orthodoxy. (Which is rather beside the point, to be sure.)
@phool4xc No, that's a highly reductive reading of the book, the Grand Inquisitor chapter, and Dostoesvky's complex relationship with religion ever since his time in prison. Far, far more to get into than a single post can summarize, but you're also forgetting Ivan's overall narrative arc and the role of polyphonic narration. It's not at all as simple as you've made it out to be.
But more importantly: TBK is hung around a Biblical discourse that my book does not have. That was the point here.
@phool4xc (I do have my own version of the Grand Inquisitor for a secular context, called the Parasite's Lament, though - so, I'll be getting into all this & more in videos & essays surrounding the release. But I'm pushing back here on a very rigid way that Western discourse often has, of trying to flatten a text expressly holding multiple views in tension to a single simplistic end. And I say that *as* an atheist who agrees with Ivan's not-one-tear speech: the book is much more complex.)