Walker Percy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the Search for Influence av Jessica Hooten Wilson

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<div>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. <i>Walker Percy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the Search for Influence</i> 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.<br> <br> <br>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 narrat