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
Milk Fed by Melissa BroderThe Edible Woman by Margaret AtwoodYou Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra KleemanCursed Bread by Sophie MackintoshPiglet by Hazell Lottie
Weird Existentialist Food Fiction
15 books — 5 voters
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
461 books — 784 voters

Whereas a belief in an absurd world arises out of the fundamental disharmony of a person searching for meaning in an apparently meaninglessness universe, an existential nihilist displays impassive intellectual stoicism towards their eventual mortality while embracing a passionate artistic commitment to munity against the underlying syndrome of insignificance and confusion encasing life.
Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

Am I alone in an ensconced inner world where I obsessively worry about what happens to me, where the story of personal survival becomes the central theme of my shallow existence? I think not. Swaddled in our own brand of strangeness, we all struggle to come to terms with our demonstrated personal shortcomings. Our yearned-for life of living in pink skyways far removed from harm’s way is depressingly marked in contrast by our actual crabby existence spent scuttling along akin to a smug lobster, s ...more
Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

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