Dostoevsky's Notes is an excellent small novel to get a stream of conciousness sense of existentialism, Henry Czerny starred in a wonderful film adaptation of this novel. Here's the link for info on the film: [url]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114005/
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Knut Hamsun, a turn of the century author like Dostoevsky, wrote similar a similar novel to Notes called Hunger. Same wonderful sense of paranoiac, self-righteous diatribes.[/url]