Nihilism and Literature

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John Barth
The Floating Opera (novel) 1956
The End of the Road (novel) 1969

Samuel Beckett
Murphy (novel) 1938
En attendant Godot [Waiting for Godot] (drama) 1953

Albert Camus
Le mythe de Sisyphe [The Myth of Sisyphus] (essays) 1942
L'Etranger [The Stranger] (novel) 1942
Caligula [Caligula] (drama) 1944
La peste [The Plague] (novel) 1946
L'Homme revolte [The Rebel] (essay) 1951

N. G. Chernyshevsky
Shto Delat? [What is to be Done?] (novel) 1863

Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Zapiski iz podpolya [Notes from the Underground] (novella) 1864
Besy [The Possessed] (novel) 1871
Bratya Karamazovy [Brothers Karamazov] (novel) 1879-80

Martin Heidegger
Sein und Zeit [Being and Time] (essays) 1927
Einführung in die Metaphysik [An Introduction to Metaphysics] (essays) 1953

Franz Kafka
Der Prozess [The Trial] (novel) 1925
Das Schloss [The Castle] (novel) 1926

Friedrich Nietzsche
Also spake Zarathusa [Thus Spoke Zarathusa] (novel) 1883-85
Jenseits von gut und boese [Beyond Good and Evil] (essays) 1886
Zur genealogie der moral [The Genealogy of Morals] (essays) 1884

S. M. Stepniak-Kravchinsky
The Career of a Nihilist (novel) 1889

Ivan Turgenev
Otsy I deti [Fathers and Children] (novel) 1862

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