Existential Fiction

Philosophical novels where characters wrestle with identity, meaning, freedom and the absurdity of daily life.

Amerika (The Man Who Disappeared)

Kafka reimagines the United States as a shifting dream where young Karl Rossmann navigates ambition, exploitation, and fragile hope.

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Mickey7

Mickey7 is an 'Expendable': a disposable employee sent on suicide missions to colonize an ice planet. When one version dies, a new body is printed with most of his memories. But when Mickey7 survives and returns to find Mickey8 already in his bed, he must hide his existence to avoid being recycled for protein.

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Never Let Me Go

This Never Let Me Go review follows Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy from their strange schooldays at Hailsham to an uneasy adulthood in a quiet dystopia about memory, love, and what it means to be human.

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The Alchemist

A shepherd named Santiago journeys from Spain to the Egyptian desert to pursue his recurring dream and discover his personal legend.

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The Brothers Karamazov

This Brothers Karamazov review looks at a turbulent Russian family where jealousy, faith, and doubt spiral into murder, a public trial, and searching conversations about guilt and God.

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The Castle

Kafka immerses readers in a snowbound village where a land surveyor named K. confronts opaque officials and a living bureaucracy.

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The Metamorphosis

Kafka turns an ordinary morning into an existential crisis, blending precise prose with claustrophobic dread.

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The Road

The Road follows a father and son across a burned America, clinging to love, language, and hope while the world collapses.

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The Trial

Kafka transforms an unexplained arrest into a study of power, paranoia, and labyrinthine process in this existential classic.

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