Description |
vi, 200 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents |
Alienation and solidarity -interlocking opposites -- Suffering and psychic blackmail -Dostoevsky and sadomasochism -- The opposite prediction -Ivan and Zossima -- Simultaneity of opposites -Jean-Paul Sartre -- Existentialism, violence, and communism -- Albert Camus and the world of the absurd -- Absurd reasoning and the saints without God -- William Faulkner and the tyranny of linear consciousness -- Dark prophets of hope -- Alienated man and the faculty of categorization -- Simultaneity and contemporary cultural history |
Notes |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Camus, Albert, 1913-1960.
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Camus, Albert, 1913-1960 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881.
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Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.
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Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980.
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Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Literature -- Philosophy.
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LC no. |
75005697 |
ISBN |
0829402349 |
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0829402438 (paperback) |
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