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What is existentialism and what characterizes existentialism literature?
Can works that attempt to change a personīs life decisions, such as changing a depressed person to a non-depressed one which is the case in Every Brilliant thing, be treated as existentliast literature?
Thanks in advance for all answers!
You can read about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existentialism
I don't know much about existentialism, but I view it as a personal, subjective approach to knowledge rather than a scientific approach which is supposedly "objective" by ignoring anything personal.
By that perspective most literature would be existentialist.
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Originally Posted by tomfyhr
Jean Paul Sartre wrote some plays with a strong existentialist bent to them.
ooh, ohh - is it The Stranger by Albert Camus or The Trial by Franz Kafka?
tomfyhr, I don't feel that I can add anything to the long and detailed definition given in the above wikipedia post. To learn more you will need to start studying existentialism yourself. Perhaps even start a blog on it? Good luck!
No Exit, Nausea by Sartre
Existence precedes essence. That'll be $5,822. See you next semester.Quote:
Originally Posted by tomfyhr
I wrote a reply to this thread. It took 15 minutes to write. I wonder the post didn't even appear.
That's lousy, freaky. I've had some troubles with the site lately, too, but nothing like that. My sympathies.Quote:
Originally Posted by freaky
"I wrote a reply to this thread. It took 15 minutes to write. I wonder the post didn't even appear."
Essence before existence. Obviously you should have waited for your reply to appear before you spent your time writing it.