Author: Paperno, Irina
Title: Suicide as a Cultural Institution in Dostoevsky's Russia
Description: Ithaca [NY], Cornell University Press, (1997). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, ix,319 pp. Minor rubbing. Small label to rear cover. VG. ¶ Contents: Introduction: The Symbolic Meanings of Suicide; Suicide & Western Science. Man's Two Bodies; Russian Views: Church, Law, & Science; Suicide in the Russian Press; Suicide Notes & Diaries; Dostoevsky's Fiction: The Metaphysics of Suicide; Diary of a Writer: Dostoevsky & His Reader; Portrait of a Journalist: Albert Kovner; Appendix: The Russian Texts.

Keywords: Russian Social History, Tsarist Russia, Literature, Literary Criticism, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Suicide, , ,