This
paper summarizes and analyzes three famous stories by Jean-Paul Sarte, Franz Kafka and Albert Camus in an effort to
explain
existentialism. The
paper examines, "The Adulterous Woman" by Albert Camus, "Jackals and Arabs" by Franz Kafka and "The Wall" by Jean-Paul Sarte and makes the point that existentialism is about nothingness and it primarily reflected the mood of the very depressive era in which it gained popularity. The paper concludes that, despite some valid and creative, capable writers having been swept up in the existentialist literary phenomenon, existentialism is a style, and an artificial one at that.