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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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
The Catholic University of America Press
[2019]
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvcmxpf8 |
| 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"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813231280 0813231280 9780813231273 0813231272 |