Facing Mortality: Exploring Existentialist Motif of Death in the Selected Novels by McCarthy, Zhadan, and Müller.
This study represents the first scholarly endeavour to investigate the existentialist motif of death within the works of renowned authors from the United States and Europe: Cormac McCarthy's The Road (2006), Herta Müller's Atemschaukel (2009), and Serhii Zhadan's Internat (2017). Employing a multifa...
| Publicado en: | Respectus Philologicus Vol. 45; no. 51; pp. 118 - 131 |
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Vilnius University
2024
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