[Free read ebook] Suicide as a Cultural Institution in Dostoevsky's Russia
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| #3060610 in Books | Irina Paperno | 1998-02-13 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.05 x.84 x6.04l,.90 | File Name: 0801484251 | 304 pages | Suicide as a cultural institution in Dostoevsky s Russia
||6 of 9 people found the following review helpful.| it's a padded-out thesis|By snowbat|Suicide is certainly interesting and informative, but it can be slow going at times. It has all the repetitiveness of a five-paragraph essay, and is written in a rickety academic prose. By which I unfortunately do not mean that it's abstruse or deeply complex. In other words: not an artistic tour-de-force. Also, don't look to this book as a||"As Irina Paperno demonstrates in this fascinating look at Russian fiction, newspaper articles, suicide notes, and medical reports, the act of suicide in 19th century Russia became the source of discussions on immortality, religion, free will, and the relatio
In the popular and scientific imagination, suicide has always been an enigmatic act that defies, and yet demands, explanation. Throughout the centuries, philosophers and writers, journalists and scientists have attempted to endow this act with meaning. In the nineteenth century, and especially in Russia, suicide became the focus for discussion of such issues as the immortality of the soul, free will and determinism, the physical and the spiritual, the individual and ...
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