Richard Tashjian

The Existentialist Richard Tashjian

The Existentialist is the existential novel of anticipation and heartbreak. It is an exaggerated rendering of the tides that govern all man's lives. In it a disaffected scholar chides an indifferent world. And it shows the inevitable balance of good for good and bad for bad that heaven tries unyieldingly to approximate on earth. It is a grand theme based on a mythic scale. And it is shrouded in stark imagery. It is the chrystallization of many of the author's earlier themes but with a language style that is increasingly abstract. Set variously at Yale, West Hartford, and asylums, it is as inventive as it is vivid. 2008-2010.