Walker Percy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the Search for Influence

by Jessica Hooten Wilson

Book Overview

Although Walker Percy named many influences on his work and critics have zeroed in on Kierkegaard in particular, no one has considered his intentional influence: the nineteenth-century Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky. In a study that revives and complicates notions of adaptation and influence, Jessica Hooten Wilson details the long career of Walker Percy. Walker Percy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the Search for Influence demonstrates-through...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814254381
• ISBN13: 9780814254387
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"