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Fyodor Dostoevsky, Walker Percy, and the age of suicide / John F. Desmond.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Desmond, John F., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881--Criticism and interpretation.
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor.
- Percy, Walker, 1916-1990--Criticism and interpretation.
- Percy, Walker.
- Suicide in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (300 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, District of Columbia : The Catholic University of America Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- "A study of the phenomenon of suicide, both actual and spiritual, in the major fictional works of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Walker Percy, drawing lines of continuity between the two authors and noting their differences. In the epilogue, Desmond offers a Christian counter-vision to the 'suicidal' ethos he has documented"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Dostoevsky and the road to suicide
- Notes on "Notes from underground"
- Crime and punishment: a modern case
- The idiot: Christ without Christ
- Demons: a cautionary tale
- The Brothers Karamazov: of darkness and light
- Walker Percy and the age of suicide
- The moviegoer: skirting the abyss
- The last gentleman: homeward bound
- Lancelot: what do survivors do?
- The second coming: finding home
- Love in the ruins and The thanatos syndrome: cautionary tales.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8132-3128-0
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