No doubt that Camus would have been one of history’s best writers in any context, but without existentialism he wouldn’t have been Camus. It transcended their work, acted as the centre which gave meaning to their fiction. CRITICS OF SARTRE’S novel Nausea have been burdened with ‘the eternal question’ when confronting the text – is it a work of philosophy, or a novel? Christina Howells’ answer to this question is the genre of ‘existential fiction’ for which Albert Camus, Simone de Beauvoir, Paul Nizan, Gabriel Marcel, and others, hold a permanent emeritus status.įor these authors, existentialism was a form of truth.
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