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Musings on mortality : from Tolstoy to Primo Levi /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brombert, Victor, 1923-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Mortality in literature.
Death in literature.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue : "To negate nothingness"
  • Tolstoy : "Caius is mortal"
  • Thomas Mann and the lure of the abyss
  • Kafka : the death journey in the everlasting present
  • Virginia Woolf : "Death is the enemy"
  • Albert Camus : the endless defeat
  • Georgio Bassani : "Even objects die"
  • J.M. Coetzee and the scandal of death
  • Primo Levi : the flawed design.