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Walker Percy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the Search for Influence
2017
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 close reading of
both writers' works, examination of archival materials, and
biographical criticism-not only how pervasive and inescapable
Dostoevsky's influence was but also how necessary it was to the
distinctive strengths of Percy's fiction. From Dostoevsky, Percy
learned how to captivate his non-Christian readership with fiction
saturated by a Christian vision of reality. Not only was his method
of imitation in line with this Christian faith but also the
aesthetic mode and very content of his narratives centered on his
knowledge of Christ. The influence of Dostoevsky on Percy, then,
becomes significant as a modern case study for showing the illusion
of artistic autonomy and long-held, Romantic assumptions about
artistic originality. Ultimately, Wilson suggests, only by studying
the good that came before can one translate it in a new voice for
the here and now.
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Ohio State University Press,The Ohio State University Press
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ISBN
0814213499, 9780814213490, 9780814254387, 0814254381
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