The phrase "existential predicament" is a summary of Moravia's preoccupation as a novelist. In his fiction there is constant, unrelenting obsession with the situation of a single, particular character confronting, through his own existence in a physical, historical setting, the forces or powers of negation which threaten him with the frightening personal awareness of the possibility, even inevitability, of his own dissolution into nothingness.
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc130652 |
Date | 08 1900 |
Creators | Young, Gene Herman |
Contributors | Key, Howard C., Dalrymple, H. B. |
Publisher | North Texas State University |
Source Sets | University of North Texas |
Language | English |
Detected Language | English |
Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
Format | iii, 93 leaves, Text |
Rights | Public, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved., Young, Gene Herman |
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