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The Dynamics of the Absurd in the Existentialist Novel

The Dynamics of the Absurd in the Existentialist Novel

Baker, Richard

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Series: American University Studies, Book 31

Literary Criticism

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ISBN10: 0820420794
ISBN13: 9780820420790
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: Dec 1 1993
Pages: 152
Language: English
In 1942, the French author Albert Camus, in an essay titled The Myth of Sisyphus, wrote a comprehensive analysis of the absurd to explain his novel The Stranger. Using Camus's essay as a matrix for the absurd, this book is a rigorous examination of other contemporary existentialist writers and their novels: the French writer Jean-Paul Sartre provides us with his important absurdist text Nausea; the Spanish writer Miguel de Unamuno, Mist; and the two American writers Richard Wright, Native Son and Walker Percy, The Last Gentleman. Since The Dynamics of the Absurd in the Existentialist Novel is a comparative study, different authors are invoked from various cultures to demonstrate the vast viability of Camus's criteria for the absurd and to determine the interpretive results which can be gleaned from its application.

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