Literary classics of angst, ennui and despair
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Still from Orson Welles' 1962 adaptation of Franz Kafka's The Trial |
- Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
- William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
- André Gide, The Immoralist
- Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
- Franz Kafka, The Trial
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet
- Kobo Abe, The Woman in the Dunes
- Albert Camus, The Stranger
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground
- Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
- Margery Williams, The Velveteen rabbit
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