philosophical novel
Fiction exploring ideas
A philosophical novel is a work of fiction that uses narrative to explore ideas—questions of existence, ethics, knowledge, or meaning.
The story and characters serve as vehicles for intellectual inquiry rather than mere entertainment.
Dostoevsky's *Crime and Punishment* examines guilt and redemption; Camus's *The Stranger* embodies absurdism.
The genre blurs the line between literature and philosophy.
- existentialismPhilosophy stressing self-created meaning
- allegorySymbolic tale with deeper meaning
- paradoxesSeemingly self-refuting statements
- thought experimentHypothetical scenario for reasoning
- ethicsStudy of right conduct
Albert Camus · Fyodor Dostoevsky · Franz Kafka · dialogue · dystopian literature · Brave New World · free will · Simone de Beauvoir · meaning of life · Milan Kundera · determinism · Jean-Paul Sartre · metaphysics · inner monologue · Hermann Hesse · consciousness · epistemology · modernist literature
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Fiction about romantic love
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