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   Norwegian writer Jostein Gaarder and others broadened the existential novel's reach by embedding its philosophical concerns within accessible, popular fiction.

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   Franz Kafka's novels, though written before existentialism was named as a philosophy, are frequently classified as existential novels for their themes of alienation and meaningless bureaucracy.

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   The existential novel often centers on characters confronting radical freedom and the absence of inherent meaning, themes drawn from existentialist philosophy.

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   Fyodor Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground is frequently cited as a precursor to the existential novel, predating the formal movement by decades.

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   Sartre's novel Nausea, published in 1938, is widely regarded as one of the earliest and most influential works of existential fiction.

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   Albert Camus's The Stranger, a foundational existential novel, explores themes of absurdity and alienation through the emotionally detached narrator Meursault.

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