Who is your favorite writer and why?? I don’t know if I know them but I like to hear about them…

I start first….

After giving a lot of thought about this, I chose Dostoyevsky over Nichos Kazantzakis….. I love Dostoyevsky because I believe he (and not Kierkegaard or Nietzsche) was the founder of existentialism… just that he believed individuals [b]by having faith[/b] find meaning in life…

In every story that he wrote ( I have read most of it) he visits and discovers every corner of humans mind …

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Well put, long ago i had a slim volume covering those 3 along with Kafka, since then i grouped them together, Dostoevsky through being a novelist may have put into practice the existentialist viewpoint, or as i saw a volume describing it as Conviction Theology.

Soossie

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Yes…. Conviction Theology, even a better term for it…

SW-User

@Soossie 2023 will be Dostoevsky year for me, he has such a rich legacy of admirers. To answer original post question, Robert Walser, a Swiss writer, wrote so beguilingly about regular things like going out for a walk.

Soossie

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Enjoy….

Wow!!! I love that idea… I have to check on Robert Walser …. Sounds interesting…