You can buy Stephen Paul Foster’s novel Fatal Friendship here.
You can buy Stephen Paul Foster’s novel Fatal Friendship here.
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Stephen Paul Foster
Fatal Friendship: A Philosophical Novel
Foster & Dobson, 2023
To subtitle one’s fiction A Philosophical Novel throws down a weighty gauntlet. Some novels which could be described as philosophical slip in and out of the discipline with ease, weaving speculative thought — and even direct mention of philosophers — into the profession of storytelling. Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain is a good example. Other novels, such as Albert Camus’ The Outsider, are philosophical novels — in this case a core text of existentialism — without trying to be, not resorting to direct quotation or discussion. (more…)