Existentialist


The Stranger
Nausea
The Metamorphosis
The Plague
The Fall (Vintage International)
Waiting for Godot
Crime and Punishment
The Trial
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
Notes from Underground
The Brothers Karamazov
Being and Nothingness
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Existentialism is a Humanism
Fear and Trembling
The Stranger by Albert CamusCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Trial by Franz KafkaNausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
Best Existential Fiction
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Simone de Beauvoir
That’s what’s so wonderful about you, you’re so self-sufficient that I feel that you’ve created your own self.
Simone de Beauvoir, The Blood of Others

Aman Tiwari
The inevitability of death transpires us to acknowledge the absurdity of the worldly existence. Hope precipitates with this awareness as we realize the futility of materialism, including the possession of self as a body in the meaningless world of nothingness. We see death as a greater event than the life itself having meaning as a denouement, freeing us from the clinches of our desires, despairs and memories. We mustn’t attach hope to exterior desires but rather relate it to the inwardness in o ...more
Aman Tiwari, Memoir: The Cathartic Night

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