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WESTERN/Euro-American
Atheism in Western Literature
| Doris Lessing, the Temptation of Jack Orkney 1978 |
| John le Carré on atheism |
| the Emperor's New Clothes - dis/belief in the invisible |
| Moby Dick, by Herman Melville -- atheist as god-fugitive, obsession |
| Dostoevsky's chapter on the Grand Inquisitor (part 2, book 5: Pro and Contra, chapter V, the Brothers Karamazov - christian atheism |
| Uncle Remus' "Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby" (1880) - the success of anti-theism |
| Frank Baum's Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) ... meeting the real Oz, the Terrible |
| San Manuel Bueno, mártir, by Unamuno - christian atheism |
| the Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand - the virtue of selfishness |
| the Magus, by John Fowles - manipulation and control |
| Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle - logical analysis |
| Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett (1952) - the god who is never there |
| Superman comics - supernatural being with ethics |
| Batman comics - human being with humanist ethics |
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