After finishing Steppenwolf, I have to say that it might be the densest 218-page book ever written. Not dense as in unenjoyable, but dense as in containing an incredible amount of useful information and quotable statements. However, thanks to Colin Wilson’s book The Outsider, I had distorted expectations going into Steppenwolf. For some reason I [...]
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Existential Dilemmas
I don’t like to use heavy labels or ideologies to express myself or to describe what I’ve been reading, but sometimes it’s inevitable. Since I saw the film I Heart Huckabees in 2004, I haven’t been able to escape the word “existentialism.” It popped up again in 2006 when I read The Stranger by Camus, [...]
