His trip to London - the stage of the first Universal Exposition - was for Dostoyevsky the revelation, below the glittering brilliance of progress represented by the Crystal Palace, of the irremediable loneliness and the resigned despair of a subjugated humanity. This illumination by the darkness found fulfilled reflection in the chapter of his novel The Brothers Karamazov dedicated to the Grand Inquisitor. In these pages of rare mastery and penetration, the object of countless interpretations to date, Dostoevsky faces crucial issues of moral, political, historical and religious importance. In the words of Gustavo Zagrebelsky, «the accusation of the Grand Inquisitor against Christ is a text that does not stop questioning us and that we ourselves do not stop questioning according to our current concerns»; a text that acts as a mirror of contemporary man, "in the light of the words of the Inquisitor and the silence of Christ, without screens, filters or mediations." Following the sentence pronounced by the Grand Inquisitor of human freedom, a freedom that would be nothing more than "impatience and suffering", "a gift, but poisoned", and an authentic source of all evil, the Italian jurist and philosopher goes through lucidity the crossroads of power and servitude, in the dilemma between acquiescence and resistance.