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Adultery is the cleverest of the seven episodes-a cynical little satire on a well-known Gallic institution: the ménage à trois. While dining out one day, a young bachelor (played by Jean-Paul Belmondo, the post-existentialist punk in Breathless, who proves roguishly engaging in romantic comedy) gives a neglected wife (Dany Robin) the old let's-do-it look. She looks right back. Wearing his horns jauntily, the husband invites the bachelor home for lunch. "My wife hates money," he murmurs casually, "so she spends it as fast as she can. By the way, when...
Breathless. Exciting variations on the old existentialist theme: life is just one damn thing after another, and death is the thing after that...
Director Godard obviously means that some people are monsters, but quite possibly the question requires an existentialist answer, too. The hero, though such ideas are far beyond his merely physical preoccupations, behaves like a personification of Gide's acte gratuit ("an action motivated by nothing . . . born of itself"), and his story can be seen as an extemporization on the existentialist tenet that life is just one damn thing after another, and death is the thing after that...
...horrors of pathology that Greene's imagination centers. It is the quiet, and some would say merciful, side effect of leprosy-the disappearance of sensation, of the power to feel even pain-which haunts Greene, and which he makes the basis of a novel that would be called existentialist, in the manner of Camus' The Plague, if it were not also Christian...
...Future of Mankind, by Karl Jaspers. The prose of an author who is both a German and an existentialist is bound to be somewhat murky, but Jaspers advances powerful arguments against both easy despair and easy optimism about the human condition...