/lit/ - What is your favorite existentialist book? For me - Literature

Anonymous

05/07/24(Tue)10:36:04 No.23361958

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What is your favorite existentialist book?

For me it's probably Frankenstein.

Anonymous
05/07/24(Tue)10:44:57 No.23361973

Anonymous 05/07/24(Tue)10:44:57 No.23361973

>>23361958
Dostoevsky was not religious in real life. This is the guy who became the biggest fan of the tsarist regime after he was locked up for his part in the revolutionary left movement. He’s just a broken masochist toy who cope spending money on gambling.
>nietzsche was insane
It didn’t stop him from being a genius.

Anonymous
05/07/24(Tue)10:49:04 No.23361979

Anonymous 05/07/24(Tue)10:49:04 No.23361979

>>23361973
>This is the guy who became the biggest fan of the tsarist regime after he was locked up for his part in the revolutionary left movement.
He wanted to emancipate the serfs. After the Tsar emancipated the serfs he liked him again.

Anonymous
05/07/24(Tue)10:50:05 No.23361982

Anonymous 05/07/24(Tue)10:50:05 No.23361982

>>23361958
Metamorphosis. The purpose of a lot of novels is to explore philosophical concepts, using the characters and story as a vessel. I'm not really a fan of that. I find stories that are personal expressions of the author more genuine and heartfelt, and they just happen to be philosophical. Metamorphosis is just that.

Anonymous
05/07/24(Tue)10:52:06 No.23361990

Anonymous 05/07/24(Tue)10:52:06 No.23361990

>>23361982
I feel the same way, Anon. That's generally what I like about Kafka's work.

Anonymous
05/07/24(Tue)16:37:22 No.23363098

Anonymous 05/07/24(Tue)16:37:22 No.23363098

What is called thinking by heidegger

mystery of being by marcel

marcel also has great plays, you can get one cool book that's one of his plays and a philosophical essay. "Gabriel Marcel's Perspectives on the Broken World" is what that is called.

Anonymous
05/07/24(Tue)16:58:18 No.23363157

Anonymous 05/07/24(Tue)16:58:18 No.23363157

I know I'm cheating but Either/Or paired with Fear and Trembling

Anonymous
05/07/24(Tue)17:00:54 No.23363166

Anonymous 05/07/24(Tue)17:00:54 No.23363166

>>23361958
I was sort of unimpressed with The Plague when I first read it and likely had some harsher criticisms that were warranted. I will say the book has grown on me as time has gone on so I will go with The Plague.

Anonymous
05/07/24(Tue)22:50:55 No.23364073

Anonymous 05/07/24(Tue)22:50:55 No.23364073

>>23361958
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race by Thomas Ligotti. That being said, I have found that dwelling on existential angst is quite unhealthy, and it's better to channel your introspective passion for use in the humanities. Currently, I'm looking to use my Masters towards tackling Persian economic history, it's better than spending one's time in misery over existential questions that can never be answered

Anonymous
05/07/24(Tue)23:19:34 No.23364171

Anonymous 05/07/24(Tue)23:19:34 No.23364171

>>23361958
Man Against Mass Society

Anonymous
05/08/24(Wed)10:54:12 No.23365286

Anonymous 05/08/24(Wed)10:54:12 No.23365286

>>23361958
Notes from Underground
The Castle
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Nausea
Steppenwolf