Abstract

PATROCINIO ALARCON, RAFAEL. Brief considerations on why the writers of literature commit suicide?. CS [online]. 2015, n.17, pp.63-82. ISSN 2011-0324.  https://doi.org/10.18046/recs.i17.2041.

This article pursues the objective is to initiate a debate on the concerns regarding the death of literature writers and their characters, avoiding the temptation to impregnate the paper theoretical presentations on the various causes of suicide of a person. Avoiding the temptation to fill up the paper with theoretical arguments on the various causes of the suicide of a person, even with the presence of common factors, here it aims to recognize the existence of particular specific reasons in each suicide. Many treaties and literary works have been written on suicide, mainly with a religious, philosophical, socio-anthropological, economic, medical and psychiatric and genetic approaches. Thus, without claiming to exhaust the subject, rather than closing with concluding thoughts, some questions are formulated to continue the reflection on the phenomenon of suicide.

Keywords : Suicide; writers; literature.

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