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Fyodor Dostoevsky, Walker Percy, and the Age of Suicide
Catholic University of America Press, 2019 Cloth: 978-0-8132-3127-3 | eISBN: 978-0-8132-3128-0 Library of Congress Classification PN56.S744D47 2019 Dewey Decimal Classification 809.393548
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Walker Percy, and the Age of Suicide is a study of the phenomenon of suicide in modern and post-modern society as represented in the major fictional works of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Walker Percy. In his study, suicide is understood in both a literal and spiritual sense as referring to both the actual suicides in their works and to the broader social malaise of spiritual suicide, or despair. In the 19th century Dostoevsky called suicide “the terrible question of our age”. For his part, Percy understood 20th century Western culture as “suicidal” in both its social, political and military behavior and in the deeper sense that its citizenry had suffered an ontological “loss of self” or “deformation” of being. Likewise, Thomas Merton called the 20th century an “age of suicide”. See other books on: 1821-1881 | 1916-1990 | Dostoyevsky, Fyodor | Suicide | Suicide in literature See other titles from Catholic University of America Press |
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Fyodor Dostoevsky, Walker Percy, and the Age of Suicide
ABOUT THIS BOOK | TOC
Catholic University of America Press, 2019
Cloth: 978-0-8132-3127-3
eISBN: 978-0-8132-3128-0
Cloth: 978-0-8132-3127-3
eISBN: 978-0-8132-3128-0
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Walker Percy, and the Age of Suicide is a study of the phenomenon of suicide in modern and post-modern society as represented in the major fictional works of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Walker Percy. In his study, suicide is understood in both a literal and spiritual sense as referring to both the actual suicides in their works and to the broader social malaise of spiritual suicide, or despair. In the 19th century Dostoevsky called suicide “the terrible question of our age”. For his part, Percy understood 20th century Western culture as “suicidal” in both its social, political and military behavior and in the deeper sense that its citizenry had suffered an ontological “loss of self” or “deformation” of being. Likewise, Thomas Merton called the 20th century an “age of suicide”.
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