Peculiarities of a genre of existentialistic novel in English literature

Abstract

The article is devoted to the peculiarities of a genre of existentialistic novel in English literature. Existentialism (from Latin exsistentia — existence), — a trend in the XX-th century philosophy, considering the person as the unique spiritual being capable to a choice of own destiny. However it is necessary to notice that in the sixties, in England there was also an optimistic variant of existentialism. One of the main representatives was the writer and philosopher Colin Wilson. C. Wilson speaks about new understanding of freedom which consists in expansion and deepening of consciousness by various methods of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy and meditation. The writer considers that the major problem of the person – to understand the duality.

Keywords

• existentialism
• writer
• book
• novel
• philosophy