Narrative Faith - Dostoevsky, Camus, and SingerPevná vazba
Narrative Faith - Dostoevsky, Camus, and SingerPevná vazba Narrative Faith engages with the dynamics of doubt and faith to consider how literary works with complex structures explore different moral…
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Narrative Faith - Dostoevsky, Camus, and SingerPevná vazba
Narrative Faith engages with the dynamics of doubt and faith to consider how literary works with complex structures explore different moral visions. Starting with Dostoevsky's Demons (1872), a literary work that has captivated and confounded critics and readers for well over a century, the study examines Albert Camus's The Plague (1947) and Isaac Bashevis Singer's The Penitent (1973/83), works by twentieth-century authors who similarly intensify questions of faith through narrators that generate doubt. The study describes a literary petite histoire that problematizes faith in two ways--both in the themes presented in the story, and the strategies used to tell that story--leading readers to doubt the narrators and their narratives.
The two postwar novelists share parallel preoccupations with Dostoevsky's art and similar personal philosophies, while their works constitute two literary