Genre:Absurdist Literature Who Will Enjoy This Book: Overview: Amerika, or also known as, The Man Who Disappeared, is Franz Kafka’s unfinished novel about a young…
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Type of Book: Existential Fiction, Psychological Drama, Philosophical Novel Franz Kafka’s The Trial plunges readers into a surreal and unsettling exploration of bureaucracy, guilt, and…
Existential literature is like a mirror held up to the chaos of the human condition—staring deeply into it might not reveal a perfectly coiffed reflection,…
Type of Book: Philosophical Novel, Existentialist Fiction, Psychological Drama Jean-Paul Sartre’s Nausea is a pioneering work of existentialist philosophy, written in the form of a…
“Are We All Just Geckos in a Bigger Cage?” The other night, as I was watching Neo, the kids’ gecko, I couldn’t help but marvel…
Nietzsche, Absurdism, and the Power of Living Authentically In my October of Nietzsche series, we’ve arrived at perhaps his most controversial statement: “God is dead.”…
Nietzsche isn’t exactly the guy you’d expect to hand out life advice with a smile and a pat on the back, but in Thus Spoke…
Finding Personal Purpose in a World Without Inherent Meaning The idea that life has no inherent meaning is a heavy one. As someone deeply enthralled…
Human nature and the external world are often seen as separate entities, with the former rooted in consciousness and the latter existing independently of it.…
The first time I heard this quote I was in middle school, I think. I believe we were reading aloud from these “plays” that we…