Aliens and existential elevators: absurdity and its shadows in Douglas Adams’s <i>Hitch hiker</i> series

According to twentieth-century existentialist philosophy, the universe as we know it is steeped in senselessness, and the only possible means of survival is the construction of subjective meaning. Douglas Adams’s fictional universe portrayed in his “Hitch hiker” series reflects the arbitrary nature...

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Main Author: M.A. van der Colff
Format: Article
Language:Afrikaans
Published: AOSIS 2008-07-01
Series:Literator
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Online Access:https://literator.org.za/index.php/literator/article/view/128