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The 110 pages that link to Existentialism, each with the reason it gives.

• Romanticism in philosophyRelated: Its focus on lived individuality inherits questions Romanticism raised about freedom and selfhood.

• Theatre of the AbsurdRelated: Its questions about meaning and existence overlap with the movement’s recurring dramatic concerns.

• Fyodor DostoevskyRelated: Dostoevsky’s characters confront freedom and responsibility before existentialism became a named movement.

• A ConfessionRelated: Tolstoy confronts the problem of how to live when life seems meaningless.

• NihilismRelated: Existentialist thinkers respond to absent predetermined meaning by stressing human choice.

• Franz KafkaRelated: Existentialist writers and critics found in Kafka’s isolated protagonists a literary counterpart to questions of responsibility and meaning.

• Divine hiddennessRelated: Some existentialist accounts treat divine silence as a condition for human responsibility.

• Secular humanismRelated: Both approaches address meaning without relying on a divinely assigned purpose.

• Meaning of lifeRelated: It treats meaning as something people make through choices rather than discover as a universal fact.

• Neo-noirRelated: Its concerns resonate with neo-noir protagonists facing choice in morally unstable worlds.

• Richard WrightRelated: Wright’s later fiction drew on existential questions about agency under social constraint.

• The ScreamRelated: The isolated figure has often been read as an image of existential distress.

• Human conditionRelated: It treats meaning as something people must confront and shape amid uncertainty.

• PersonalismRelated: Some personalists share its focus on lived freedom but ground personhood in a more relational account.

• ThanatophobiaRelated: Existentialist thought treats mortality as a condition people must confront and interpret.

• André MalrauxRelated: Malraux’s fiction often examines action and meaning under conditions of mortality and crisis.

• SufferingRelated: Existentialist thought examines how people make meaning amid pain and uncertainty.

• Continental philosophyRelated: Its accounts of freedom and situated existence became a prominent strand of the tradition.

• ImmortalityRelated: Its emphasis on finite life challenges the desire to escape death.

• PessimismRelated: Existentialists confront bleak conditions but often emphasize creating meaning rather than judging life as a whole.

• Waiting for GodotRelated: The play’s characters confront existence without receiving a clear explanation or purpose.

• Harold RosenbergRelated: Rosenberg’s language casts painting as a consequential act of individual choice.

• Henri LefebvreRelated: Lefebvre engaged existentialist concerns while criticizing their separation from material social relations.

• The FallRelated: Clamence’s account makes responsibility and self-deception central, though Camus resisted being labeled an existentialist.

• The FliesRelated: Orestes’s actions dramatize Sartre’s claim that people make themselves through choices.

• The Seventh SealRelated: The characters confront choices and mortality without reliable metaphysical reassurance.

• La StradaRelated: The characters face lives without clear justice, making their choices and failures central.

• Philosophical novelRelated: Existentialist novels dramatize how people choose and assume responsibility without guaranteed answers.

• The Brothers KaramazovRelated: The brothers embody competing responses to freedom and the burden of choosing.

• EcclesiastesRelated: Modern readers have connected the book’s uncertainty about lasting meaning with existential concerns.

• Paul RicœurRelated: Ricœur engaged existential questions while resisting accounts of the self as fully transparent to itself.

• The Book of DisquietRelated: Soares's meditations repeatedly confront the strain of existing without a secure purpose.

• Alberto GiacomettiRelated: Giacometti’s isolated figures were often interpreted alongside postwar existentialist thought.

• Clarice LispectorRelated: Her characters confront existence through intimate crises rather than abstract argument.

• Kōbō AbeRelated: His characters confront freedom and responsibility inside situations they cannot readily escape.

• Michel ButorRelated: Its postwar prominence formed part of the intellectual climate surrounding Butor’s early career.

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyRelated: The story’s cosmic jokes repeatedly confront characters with meaninglessness and personal choice.

• Cléo from 5 to 7Related: Cléo’s encounter with possible death unsettles the shallow identity she has built around being admired.

• Ernesto SábatoRelated: Its concern with isolation and meaning illuminates the inner lives of Sábato’s characters.

• MoominsRelated: The stories let characters confront uncertainty without reducing it to simple moral lessons.

• NauseaRelated: The novel’s prominence helped introduce existentialist concerns to a broad literary audience.

• PeaceRelated: Enok’s solitary struggle invites comparison with later accounts of individual anguish and belief.

• Rubaiyat of Omar KhayyamRelated: The poems’ attention to mortality and uncertain purpose invites existential readings.

• Witold GombrowiczRelated: His unstable identities invite comparison with existential accounts of becoming and selfhood.

• 1940sRelated: Its postwar prominence reflected questions about choice and human responsibility after catastrophe.

• ApatheismRelated: Its focus on lived choices helps frame why some people prioritize human concerns over divine existence.

• Captain AhabRelated: Ahab’s self-made purpose raises questions about freedom and meaning in an indifferent world.

• Emil CioranRelated: His writing confronts existence and meaning, though he resisted neat philosophical classifications.

• Eyvind JohnsonRelated: Johnson’s characters confront choices and moral obligations under political and historical pressure.

• Gaito GazdanovRelated: Critics often connect Gazdanov’s characters’ isolation and choices with existentialist concerns.