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Ivan and Alliosa, the Devil's Swindle

Ivan, as this quote says, was a gloomy and withdrawn child. But he was also intellectually brilliant so he went to university to study natural science. He was very likely an atheist in a revolutionary, though this can be debated. Now the debate between Ivan and Alliosa is really more of a tirade from Ivan at Alliosa. And he starts here with what a scholar of Russian literature named Victor Terrace called the Devil's Swindle.

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