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Suicide as a Cultural Institution in Dostoevsky's Russia

Suicide as a Cultural Institution in Dostoevsky's Russia

Paperno, Irina

Hardcover

Series: Suny Series in National Identities

Literary CriticismDeath & DyingRussian History

ISBN10: 0801433975
ISBN13: 9780801433979
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: Feb 19 1998
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.45
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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 the social. Analyzing a variety of sources--medical reports, social treatises, legal codes, newspaper articles, fiction, private documents left by suicides--Irina Paperno describes the search for the meaning of suicide. Paperno focuses on Russia of the 1860s-1880s, when suicide was at the center of public attention.

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