The Dynamics of the Absurd in the Existentialist Novel

by Richard E. Baker

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820420794
• ISBN13: 9780820420790
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 152 Pages