Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. A Note on Language ix
5. Introduction: The Symbolic Meanings of Suicide 1
6. 1. Suicide and Western Science: Man's Two Bodies 19
7. 2. Russian Views: Church, Law, and Science 45
8. 3. Suicide in the Russian Press 74
9. 4. Suicide Notes and Diaries 105
10. 5. Dostoevsky's Fiction: The Metaphysics of Suicide 123
11. 6. Diary of a Writer: Dostoevsky and His Reader 162
12. 7. Portrait of a Journalist: Albert Kovner 185
13. Notes 207
14. Appendix: The Russian Texts 257
15. Index 313