Section two members of the first literary existentialism was important Czech writer Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Russian. Notes from Dostoevsky's Underground describes a person who can integrate into society and unhappy with the identities created for himself. Jean-Paul Sartre, in his book Existentialism Existentialism is a Humanism, citing Dostoyevsky Brothers Karamazov as an example of an existential crisis. He says Ivan Karamazov who claims that "if God does not exist, everything is permitted." Other novels by Dostoyevsky, covering the issues raised in existential philosophy, presenting a different story lines from the secular existentialism: for example, " Crime and Punishment Raskolnikov hero experiences an existential crisis, and then moves to the position of the Orthodox Christian world is similar to that in Dostoevsky himself.
Kafka has created a surreal and alienated characters who struggle with hopelessness and absurdity, especially the most famous novel, The Metamorphosis, or a new boss, the effort. philosophical essay The Myth of Sisyphus, the French existentialist / Absurd Camus describes the work lives of all of Kafka "essentially irrational" But Dostoevsky finds "a great cry of hope, as expressed by the religious existentialists, like Kierkegaard and Camus rejects Stube.
