Download or read book John Irving’s Existentialist Heroes written by Mathias Sajovitz and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-09-23 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of the analysis at hand is to refer to existentialist philosophy as a framework, through which it becomes possible to successfully attempt a breakdown of Irving's protagonists' lives in an absurd world and demonstrate that the narrative and the characters follow an existentialist pattern. By doing so, the analysis aims to demonstrate that most of John Irving's protagonists can be seen as existentialist heroes per se and that their behavior and their actions could subsequently be referred to as existentialist exploits.