The Existential Imagination: From De Sade To Sartre
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
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What happens when the darkest recesses of the human condition are given literary form? The Existential Imagination: From de Sade to Sartre answers that question with shattering clarity, gathering some of the most electrifying fictional works ever written into a single, indispensable volume. Spanning nearly two centuries of existential thought and creative rebellion, this landmark anthology presents fictions by de Sade, Brecht, Beckett, Malraux, Proust, Kafka, Dostoyevsky, Moravia, Sartre, and many others — writers who collectively dismantled the comfortable certainties of Western civilization and rebuilt literature from the ground up. Edited by Frederick R. Karl and Leo Hamalian, the collection argues that existentialism is not merely a philosophical school but a visceral, lived experience, one best understood through the shock of narrative encounter rather than abstract doctrine. Each carefully chosen piece illustrates the movement's core preoccupations — alienation, freedom, dread, and the radical responsibility of self-creation — while showcasing the extraordinary range of styles that existentialist sensibility inspired, from Kafka's dreamlike bureaucratic nightmares to Sartre's razor-sharp dramatic prose. A cornerstone text for students of modern literature and philosophy alike, this anthology leaves the reader with one haunting question: in a world stripped of inherent meaning, what will you choose to become?
Author: Various (Edited By Frederick R. Karl & Leo Hamalian)
Format: Paperback
Genre: Anthology
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
What happens when the darkest recesses of the human condition are given literary form? The Existential Imagination: From de Sade to Sartre answers that question with shattering clarity, gathering some of the most electrifying fictional works ever written into a single, indispensable volume. Spanning nearly two centuries of existential thought and creative rebellion, this landmark anthology presents fictions by de Sade, Brecht, Beckett, Malraux, Proust, Kafka, Dostoyevsky, Moravia, Sartre, and many others — writers who collectively dismantled the comfortable certainties of Western civilization and rebuilt literature from the ground up. Edited by Frederick R. Karl and Leo Hamalian, the collection argues that existentialism is not merely a philosophical school but a visceral, lived experience, one best understood through the shock of narrative encounter rather than abstract doctrine. Each carefully chosen piece illustrates the movement's core preoccupations — alienation, freedom, dread, and the radical responsibility of self-creation — while showcasing the extraordinary range of styles that existentialist sensibility inspired, from Kafka's dreamlike bureaucratic nightmares to Sartre's razor-sharp dramatic prose. A cornerstone text for students of modern literature and philosophy alike, this anthology leaves the reader with one haunting question: in a world stripped of inherent meaning, what will you choose to become?