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Suicide as a cultural institution in Dostoevsky's Russia

by Irina Paperno

1997 319 pages eng

"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 …

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