If you have any other suggestions to add to the books/films below, please send them to s.l.earnshaw@shu.ac.uk.

Beckett, Samuel. Waiting for Godot (first production 1953); Endgame (first production 1957).

Bellow, Saul. Dangling Man. (1944).

Bowles, Paul, The Sheltering Sky. (1949). (Also a film, 1990)

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. The Brothers Karamazov. (1880).

Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man. (1952).

Fowles, John. The Magus. (1966; rev. 1977).

Hemingway, Ernest. To Have and Have Not. (1937).

Hesse, Herman. Steppenwolf. (1927); Siddhartha (1922).

Kafka, Franz. The Castle. (1926).

Kierkegaard, Soren. Fear and Trembling; Repetition; Sickness unto Death; Concluding Unscientific Postscript.

Lessing, Doris, The Golden Notebook. (1962).

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Thus Spake Zarathustra. (1883-1892). Genealogy of Morals.

Pirandello, Luigi. Six Characters in Search of an Author. (1921)

Pynchon, Thomas. The Crying of Lot 49. (1966).

Reinhardt, Luke. The Dice Man. (1971)

Weil, Jiří. Living with a Star. (1949)

Woolf, Virginia. Mrs Dalloway. (1925).

Wright, Richard. Black Boy (1945); The Outsider (1953).

Films

American Psycho

Groundhog Day

Persona (dir. Ingmar Bergman, 1966)

The Passenger

The Seventh Seal

Songs from the Second Floor

Voyager

The Wages of Fear

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