Titlebook: God and Self in the Confessional Novel; John D. Sykes, Jr. Book 2018 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 Augustine.Rousse

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Introduction,y influential literary confessions, those of Augustine and Rousseau. In four novels, one from each century from the eighteenth to the present, this book will explore competing notions of God, self, and the burden of guilt as a first-person narrator confronts them.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1529-3the self. Underground Man proclaims his freedom, but self-deception prevents him from taking the risk of faith that would allow him to escape his vicious circle. Underground Man’s regretful, defiant account of rejecting Liza’s kenotic love implies that for Dostoevsky, there is no satisfactory confession without God.

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: Self-Deception and the Dialogic Self,the self. Underground Man proclaims his freedom, but self-deception prevents him from taking the risk of faith that would allow him to escape his vicious circle. Underground Man’s regretful, defiant account of rejecting Liza’s kenotic love implies that for Dostoevsky, there is no satisfactory confession without God.