Fyodor Dostoevsky, Walker Percy, and the Age of Suicide

by John F Desmond

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813231272
• ISBN13: 9780813231273
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"