The Existential Imagination edited by Frederick R. Karl & Leo Hamalian [FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING] 1963 • Premier

The Existential Imagination: From Shakespeare to Sartre edited by Frederick R. Karl & Leo Hamalian

FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING [1963] PREMIER BOOKS

Vintage mass market paperback in very good condition.

Visible shelf wear to cover;  otherwise clean, tight square copy. 

Reads clean with some inevitable tanning to pages.

This unique anthology charts the development of existential thought through the classic literature of past and present. It provides new insights into the most dramatic intellectual revolution of our century. Apart from the ideas, the stories and selections are entertaining and rewarding works of art in themselves. THE EXISTENTIAL IMAGINATION is not only philosophy but storytelling at its best.

Includes  Shakespeare, de Sade, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Pirandello, Proust, Kafka, Brecht, Malraux, Sartre, Beckett, Moravia