Existential

The question of why to continue, taken seriously. Fiction concerned with meaning, freedom and absurdity — usually more interested in the asking than in any answer.

On the The Literary Shelf shelf.

Books shelved as Existential

• The Myth of Sisyphus — Albert Camus
• The Plague — Albert Camus
• The Woman in the Dunes — Kōbō Abe
• The Myth of Sisyphus — Justin O'Brien

Related genres

• Literary Fiction
• Classics
• Psychological Fiction
• Contemporary Fiction
• Short Fiction
• Magical Realism
• Philosophical Fiction
• Experimental & Avant-Garde
• Cult Fiction
• Anthology
• Metafiction
• Epistolary Fiction
• Surrealism
• Postmodern
• Modernist
• Symbolist
• Hopeful Fiction

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