Word: existentialist
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...been called by any government. It was largely organized by Marcel Raymond, a Geneva university professor, and Swiss Musician Ernst-Alexandre Ansermet. Present were delegates from France (Catholic Writer Georges Bernanos, Socialist Writer Jean Guéhenno), Italy (Socialist Novelist Ignazio Silone), Hungary (Marxist Critic George Lukacs), Germany (Existentialist Karl Jaspers), Switzerland (Philosopher Denis de Rougemont), Britain (Poet Stephen Spender) and others...
...police knew who the dead man was, and who owned the hut. Both were Existentialists-followers of the morbid postwar philosophy which holds that man is nothing but the sum of his experience and that all experience is inexplicable and tragic (TIME, Jan. 28). Was this an Existentialist murder? The police asked that question of the hut's owner. "An interesting problem," he answered tranquilly...
Farmers had seen a bearded man known as a painter near the hut. That brought in another suspect, an Existentialist artist named Georges Patrix, several of whose canvases hung in Roumeguere's Paris apartment. But Patrix was also cleared...
Last week the Paris hawkshaws did not know who killed François Vintenon, or what the cause of death was, or why the body was black, bloated and burned. If it was not an Existentialist murder, it was at least a very ingenious...
Camus, who is now on a U.S. lecture tour, has denied that he is an existentialist. He is nevertheless closely identified with this French literary cult, and The Stranger is right in its groove: "existential" pessimism underlines every cold, gross, irrational detail of the story...