Any suggestions on Existentialist literature?

Question

Throughout the last year, I've read some works in Existentialist literature such as Nausea by Sartre; The Stranger, and The Fall by Albert Camus. Can anyone give me some further suggestions on Existentialist literature? Any recent European authors?

Answer 1

Catcher in the Rye is a good one...

Answer 2

The Danish writer, Kierkegaard, is considered the father of Existentialism.
Opinions vary, but his best work is probably Either/Or.
You've read Sartre, who came later, and also Camus. Interestingly, Camus never considered himself to be an Existentialist, but an Absurdist. He also disagreed with most of what Sartre wrote. Though that was probably Camus' competitive streak, because they both around at the same time.

Answer 3

Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot and Endgame. Also Camus' "The Rebel" and Sarte's play "No Exit." Existentialist is a reaction to the insanity of both world wars. Those living and writing during that time have been called existentialist by the intelligentsia.

Answer 4

No one considered himself an existentialist, except Sartre. Read No Exit. It's a good start and most people get into it fairly quickly.

Answer 5

Jean Paul Sartre is the man to go to. He basically wrote the book on modern existentialism.

Answer 6

I found the existentialists increibly depressing. My advice is to move on to Descarte.

Answer 7

Camus can do and Nietzche is peachy but Satre is Smatre.

Voltaire and Dostoyevsky are also really cool. Try 'The Idiot' or 'Candide'.

Answer 8

have you ever study seize-22? that's in all danger the funniest e book i've got ever study, with the appropriate characters. i've got additionally merely study the human beings's Act of love by James Meek, returned, sturdy characters, with a great plot.

Answer 9

anything albert camus is quite good. i like his writings