“My Whole Life I’ve Been a Fraud”: Resisting Excessive (Self-)Critique and Reaffirming Authenticity as Communal in David Foster Wallace’s “Good Old Neon” and Albert Camus’s <i>The Fall</i>
The themes of paralyzing, solipsistic self-critique versus the necessarily communal character of authentic, meaningful existence in the work of American novelist David Foster Wallace are best understood in light of existentialism. This article compares Wallace’s story “Good Old Neon” with Albert Cam...
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MDPI AG
2023-02-01
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| Series: | Humanities |
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/12/1/20 |