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Been wanting to feel my insignificance and Existential dread lately and overall I've been wanting to read something without many words in it. Recommend me your favorite Absurdist/Existential plays and playwrights.

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Why everything never seems enough? No matter how much stuff you buy in the modern world you always crave for more after your goal had been reached. No matter if it's clothes, cars, books, houses etc it's never enough. Most people are never satisfied, buying more stuff only to be disappointed later, they say to themselves they'll be happy after they'll buy this or that.

Really makes me consider the idea of the German philosopher Schopenhauer who said that everything is being controlled by an irrational, blind force that's called "The Will", and the only way to extinguish the will is by asceticism or the denial of this will.

My top ten authors are Leo Tolstoy, David Foster Wallace, Cormac McCarthy, Oscar Wilde, Herman Hesse, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Albert Camus, H. G. Wells, H. P. Lovecraft, and John Edward Williams.

Suggest me some of your favorite authors who wrote similar themes about Science fiction, morality, alienation, consumerism, spirituality, Nihilism, Buddhism, Western novels, Gnosticism, social critique, loneliness and redemption.

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Please recommend me all your favorite existentialist authors from all around around the globe. Novels, non-fiction, essays, plays, short stories, etc.

I'm wanting to start reading Kafka, from where do I begin with Kafka? Should I get right into the novels or should I read the short stories first?

If Infinite Jest enough to understand DFW? Or should collect all of his books, which is impossible for me?