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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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Ah, let's mull over the great protagonists of existential novels. Okay, there's Doestoevsky's guilt-ridden murderer Raskolnikov. And that disturbed scholar Roquentin in Sartre's Nausea. Also Binx Bolling, the troubled 'Moviegoer' in the Walker Percy novel of the same name. Let's not forget Joseph K., Zorba the Greek, Holden Caulfield, Dean Moriarty, the…

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