VOL. 58, BOOK 1, PART B, 2020 Full text (En)
Author: Daniel Kamenov
Affiliation: Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv
Abstract
With his final, posthumously published, novel, Thomas Wolfe digs deep into the human condition and comes to the conclusion that people, as a group and as a collective, deny the importance of individual existence. All people are “nameless atoms” and as an individual existence each individual being serves
only as an obstacle to others as a group. This article observes the life and death of one of those “man-swarm atoms” and explores what it means in a deeper philosophical and existential sense using Albert Camus’s philosophy of revolt.
Key words: Thomas Wolfe, Absurdism, Existentialism, revolt, rebel, Albert Camus
