Who is your favourite existential-ist writer, and why? Mine are...?

Question

(in this order) Sartre, Dostoyevsky, Genet, Camus, Ionesco and Kafka. In my view, Sartre's greatest work is "The Flies" but he espouses his humanist stance most clearly with his largely ignored and massive tome of a biography on Jean Genet called "Saint Genet," which should be read by all. The odd thing, I think, is that this general ilk of literary figures, and their implicit messages of a meaningless world, doesn't resonate with everyone. How can this not be simply the best way to write, to honestly communicate to an audience?

Blech, what a horrid e-personality you have there Biblio...

Answer 1

Kierkegaard.

Answer 2

Jim Thompson is a good American pulp writer who definitely puts American flavor into existentialist/meaningless message, though he'd never accept a moniker like "existentialist" I feel certain.

Maybe an American problem with that label???

Answer 3

J.K Rowling "Harry Potter" and Ecoin "Artemis Fowl"

Answer 4

Let me guess -- you're a college frosh in a world lit class. (All those buzz words were the tip-off.) Nobody in the real world cares about existentialism.