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Existentialism in Literature


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Existentialism in Literature
A review of "The Floating Opera" by John Barth, "The Stranger" by Albert Camus, "The Idiot" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, "The Castle" by Franz Kafka, "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" by Friedrich Nietzsche and "Nausea" by Jean-Paul Sartre.
4,500 words (approx. 18 pages) | 8 sources | 1992 United States


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"General Observations
This essay explores the various concepts of existentialism as found in the following six works: The Floating Opera (John Barth); The Stranger (Albert Camus); The Idiot (Fyodor Dostoyevsky); The Castle (Franz Kafka); Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Friedrich Nietzsche); and Nausea (Jean-Paul Sartre). These six existentialist writers embrace several viewpoints, a situation which proves existentialism is not a philosophy or a definite school of thought. Most of these existentialists are not even in agreement concerning essentials. It is possible for one existentialist to be a Christian, while the other may be an agnostic or even an atheist. Perhaps the one characteristic all of these thinkers share is their individualism.


Abraham Kaplan states: "Existentialism, moreover, is a..."

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