and am pleased to be falling in that degrading attitude and pride myself upon it. . . . Though I may be following the devil I am Thy son, O Lord, and I love Thee." Other of Dostoevsky's characters ...

But in “Devil’s Contract ... and novels such as Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “The Brothers Karamazov,” in which Ivan Karamazov imagines Christ’s sudden appearance in Seville during the Spanish ...