Existentliasm literature - help
What is existentialism and what characterizes existentialism literature?
Can works that attempt to change a person´s 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.
My blog: https://frankhubeny.blog/
Originally Posted by tomfyhr
Jean Paul Sartre wrote some plays with a strong existentialist bent to them.
There has never been a single, great revolution in history without civil war. --- Vladimir Lenin
There are decades when nothing happens and then there are weeks when decades happen. --- Vladimir Lenin
ooh, ohh - is it The Stranger by Albert Camus or The Trial by Franz Kafka?
According to Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence once said that Balzac was 'a gigantic dwarf', and in a sense the same is true of Dickens.
Charles Dickens, by George Orwell
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
There has never been a single, great revolution in history without civil war. --- Vladimir Lenin
There are decades when nothing happens and then there are weeks when decades happen. --- Vladimir Lenin
Existence precedes essence. That'll be $5,822. See you next semester.
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.
"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.
Voices mysterious far and near,
Sound of the wind and sound of the sea,
Are calling and whispering in my ear,
Whifflingpin! Why stayest thou here?
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