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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Tác giả chính: Desmond, John F. (Tác giả)
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Washington, D.C. : The Catholic University of America Press [2019]
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvcmxpf8
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