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Solitude & Exile

Meditations on isolation, exile, and the inner life.

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Nausea
Jean-Paul Sartre
Antoine Roquentin, alone in a French port city, records a growing sense of disgust at the brute existence of things — people, objects, his own hands. Sartre's first novel and his most complete expression of existentialist philosophy in fiction.
France 1938
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The Stranger
Albert Camus
Meursault, a French Algerian, kills an Arab on a beach and faces trial — less for the murder than for his failure to weep at his mother's funeral. Camus's most celebrated novel, it introduced absurdism to a wide readership.
France 1942
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