Suicide in Modern Catholic Literature

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Suicide in Modern Catholic Literature is written by Martin Lockerd and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1666786012 (ISBN 10) and 9781666786019 (ISBN 13).

Suicide plays a major role in modern literature and the philosophy that informs it. For Catholic authors, who have always understood the act within the framework of sin and redemption, it carries a special significance. In the last century, Catholic literary figures as diverse as J.R.R. Tolkien and Walker Percy, Robert Hugh Benson and Muriel Spark, J.K. Huysmans and Graham Greene, wrestled with the problem of suicide in their work and produced art that confronts the despair so common in modern existence. As suicide rates continue to increase across the developed world and entire nations embrace and expand legalized assisted suicide, this book draws readers back to Catholic literature as a resource for understanding and perhaps even resisting this trend.