The Door to Truth Might be Strangeness: A short story collection
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2022-09-23
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Masters
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Told through a lens of strangeness, my short story collection, The Door To Truth Might Be Strangeness, is an existential exploration of life's inherent absurdity in our daily quest for meaning. Each of the nine unlinked short stories start from the existential absurdity found in Albert Camus “The Myth of Sisyphus,” but move to a hope more reminiscent of the fiction of Franz Kafka or the philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre. Point of view, voice, character, dialogue, and the strange—which bubbles up in many different ways—are all used to point to our individual struggle with meaning. It does not offer definitive answers to life’s meaning, but gestures towards the possibility of an answer, while presenting the struggle between hope and absurdity.
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Albert Camus, Absurdism, short story collection, fiction
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Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)
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English
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Writing