Word: existentialists
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...started with the reading of a memorial minute--a tribute to a Faculty member who had recently passed away, a long biography of the man's life. By the end there were more nodding heads, and only the faces on the walls--who, like the characters in an existentialist play, were forced eternally to watch on--really seemed to be paying attention...
Buber, who was a religious existentialist and a professor at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, until his death in 1965, considered "I and Thou" his most important book. Kaufmann, who recently translated the work, said it is "flawed...
Oates uses madness as a symbol for a peculiar kind of corruption in the soul. Her characters are not hateful because of anything that they do; they are not even guilty of the usual existentialist sins of cowardice and self-deception. On the contrary, they bravely confront problems which most of us prefer not to think about. Their only fault is the morbid quality of their fascination with these problems. Their ugliness is not a failure of character, but a rottenness of essence that can only be observed by an omniscient narrator...
...course Beckett the absurdist, the existentialist does come through in his style. Many lines in "Echo's Bones" and "Malacoda" remind us of that airy, disjointed dialogue in Waiting for Godot and Endgame. Beckett's poems are filled with much of the same choppy, incomplete, grammarless phrases that characterize his prose and dialogues. Yet there is still that cryptic element...
...asks in one particularly moving column, and opts for the existentialist answer that the universe is absurd, that her illness is simply random luck. In that way, she is able not only to shed self-pity but to turn the question around: "Why not me?" From there, she explains, it is "only a matter of time to it is me-and what am I going...