Existentialism in Modern Fiction: A Critical Review of The Metamorphosis and The Outsider
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The research aims to address the existentialist values which arise in Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis and Albert Camus's The Outsider. Starting its journey in the 19th-century Existentialism focuses on an individual’s existence, that the world is nothing but chaos, and a human being lives here as an isolat ed person, not as a social human being. Existentialism gives a person flexibility of choice and obligations to face the consequences. Being the 20th-century and mid-20th century writers Camus and Kafka got influenced by the philosophy of Existentialism and that has been credibly presented in their novels.
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