What the hell was Ivan's problem?
Which one?
>>9235316
Let's start with his breakdown and hallucinations about the devil.
Ivan was corrupted by enlightenment liberalism and had become a Russia corrupting nihilist
Spiritually and socially isolated genius who lost everything to rationality.
>>9235334
What does his redemption and descent into sickness at the end mean?
>>9235338
May mean very little of itself. Dostoevsky intended to write sequels.