REDO: Fw: V. and existentialism

[Mark Kohut]

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Subject: V. and existentialism


"In V., where talk of Sartre fills the air and the characters are obsessed with their relationships
to objects, they become existentialists by blind chance"...--close paraphrase to first line of chapter below....

http://books.google.com/books?id=MchWLLsjHfkC&pg=PA60&dq=the+magus+john+fowles&hl=en&ei=310xTsXUOoXrgQfYg9mLDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDoQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=the%20magus%20john%20fowles&f=false