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Initial post:
16 Nov 2009 19:14 GMT
Mr. M. Lewis says:
are there any fictional books out there anybody could recommend that take inspiration from existential and nihilist outlooks that i may not have considered, things like american psycho and fight club are a bit too obvious
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16 Nov 2009 19:44 GMT
Ryan Williams says:
Basically anything by Sartre or Camus; although 'existentialist' and 'nihilist' aren't the same thing. Read Camus's The Rebel and see why.
Alexander Trocchi's Young Adam and Cain's Book are other candidates, as is William Burroughs' Junky.
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16 Nov 2009 20:03 GMT
Mr. M. Lewis says:
i do realise they're not the same thing but enjoy both philosophies, probably an existential nihilist
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16 Nov 2009 20:25 GMT
NJR says:
Ryan : from the range of your 20 reviews which I've read through, and your readiness to differentiate between existentialism and nihilism (which, I guess M Lewis, can co-exist, though the second might consider the first pointless), you might be interested in my debut novel. If you'd like to review it, do let me know, either by replying here or, better, using the comment form on the website: www.andnowings.com . Not that the book is concerned with the two concepts mentioned above, although Gabriel could be considered something of an existentialist, I suppose. Regards, Nigel. And No Wings
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16 Nov 2009 20:42 GMT
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Ryan Williams says:
Well, I've been meaning to review John McGahern's Love of the World...but that's not really urgent: he's been dead since 2006. Feel free.
Thanks for reading up, by the way.
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17 Nov 2009 10:20 GMT
NJR says:
Ok thanks. If you drop a line to this address, we can go from there: nj@jaymedia.co.uk
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17 Nov 2009 12:39 GMT
Blackbeard says:
Ryan makes a good point about the differences, but I still think it can be tricky to draw lines for philosophies that are somewhat difficult to define. If anyone is interested in existentialist thought, Existentialism From Dostoevsky To Sartre by Walter Kaufman is a good place to start. I would recommend The Freethinker by Harald Sortskaeg.
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17 Nov 2009 13:05 GMT
M. I. R. Clarke says:
this is a hoot
The Thought Gang by Tibor Fischer A black comedy in the grand tradition of word-drunk intellectuals-en-dementia, "The Thought Gang" follows the larcenous adventures of blackout alcoholic philosopher Eddie Coffin, who, in the wake of scandal, flees his professorship in England to begin the next logical step in his career: robbery. Coffin and his new partner in crime and metaphysics, Hubert the one-armed robber, road-trip across the Continent in a spree of crime and epistemology, arguing a cracked history of Western philosophy and plumbing the meaning of life. otherwise Dostoevsky is hard to beat
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18 Nov 2009 08:30 GMT
I Readalot says:
Fathers and Sons - Turgenev. Bazarov is a genuine nihilist character.
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