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  1. Musings on mortality
    from Tolstoy to Primo Levi
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  University of Chicago Press, Chicago

    Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
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    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
    Online-Ressource
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1299916236; 9781299916234; 9780226070933
    Subjects: Death in literature; Mortality in literature
    Scope: Online-Ressource (188 pages)
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-184) and index

    ""Contents""; ""Prologue: “To Negate Our Nothingness�""; ""1. Tolstoy: “Caius Is Mortal�""; ""2. Thomas Mann and the Lure of the Abyss""; ""3. Kafka: The Death Journey in the Everlasting Present""; ""4. Virginia Woolf: “Death Is the Enemy�""; ""5. Albert Camus: The Endless Defeat""; ""6. Giorgio Bassani: “Even Objects Die�""; ""7. J. M. Coetzee and the Scandal of Death""; ""8. Primo Levi: The Flawed Design""; ""Epilogue""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Notes""; ""Index of Names""