EXISTENTIALISM: ABOUT “THE TRIAL OF THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE”
1Tursunova Nargiza Xamraqulovna
During the life of Kafka, only few of his stories were published in magazines and published in separate editions (“Observation”, 1913; “The judgment”, “Stoker”, 1913; “Metamorphosis”, 1916; “A Country Doctor”, 1919; “A Hunger Artist”, 1924). Despite this circumstance, already in 1915 he received one of the prestigious literary prizes in Germany named after T. Fontane. Kafka is a poet of sympathy and compassion. The writer’s best novel is “The Trial”, which describes the persecution of a person by the state machine for slander, in this “Kafka” absurdity, like in his other novel, “The Castle”, one sees a prediction of totalitarianism, which ultimately leads humanity to collapse. In the middle of twentieth century, existentialist philosophers appear on the scene of French literature, among which Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus are recognized as the brightest representatives, writers who become the favorite objects of literary and historical-philosophical scientific research. The goal of Kafka, Sartre and Camus, the masters of the pen was one – the search for the meaning of life, the search for what contains the basic values and ideals of life: beauty, goodness, truth, justice, freedom.
existential philosophy, philosophy of the absurd, engagement, modernism, eclecticism, poetics, Second World War, cold war.