Ad
related to: short stories about existentialism
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Pages in category "Existentialist short stories" The following 45 pages are in this category, out of 45 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Many of the founding figures of existentialism represent its diverse background (clockwise from top left): Dane Søren Kierkegaard was a theologian, German Friedrich Nietzsche an anti-establishment wandering academic, Czech Franz Kafka a short-story writer and insurance assessor, and Russian Fyodor Dostoyevsky a novelist
Existentialist books, novels, short stories, films, plays, and other works of art. Subcategories This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total.
The eponymous story coldly depicts a situation in which prisoners are condemned to death. Written in 1939, the story is set in the Spanish Civil War, which began July 18, 1936, and ended April 1, 1939, when the Nationalists (known in Spanish as the Nacionalistas), led by General Francisco Franco, overcame the forces of the Spanish Republic and entered Madrid.
Sartre dealt with existentialist themes in his 1938 novel Nausea and the short stories in his 1939 collection The Wall, and had published his treatise on existentialism, Being and Nothingness, in 1943, but it was in the two years following the liberation of Paris from the German occupying forces that he and his close associates—Camus, Simone ...
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" is a frequently anthologized short story written by Joyce Carol Oates. The story first appeared in the Fall 1966 edition of Epoch magazine. It was inspired by three Tucson, Arizona , murders committed by Charles Schmid , which were profiled in Life magazine in an article written by Don Moser on March 4 ...
Over the years, Netflix has become a frontrunner in creating original movies, from award-worthy films like "Marriage Story" (2019) and "Maestro" (2023) to fan favorites like "The Gray Man" (2022).
"The Guest" (French: L'Hôte) is a short story by the French writer Albert Camus. It was first published in 1957 as part of a collection entitled Exile and the Kingdom ( L'exil et le royaume ). The French title "L'Hôte" translates into both "the guest" and "the host" which ties back to the relationship between the main characters of the story.