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Fyodor Dostoevsky, Walker Percy, and the Age of Suicide /

"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 'suicida...

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Autor principal: Desmond, John F. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : The Catholic University of America Press, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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. 
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