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I would very conditionally divide” philosophical but fiction ” into two types::
1° When a “professional thinker” turns to literature and writes works like these:
“Confessions” by Rousseau
“Candide ” and” Zadig ” by Voltaire
“Jacques the Fatalist and his master” by Diderot
“Diary of a Seducer” by Seren Kierkegaard
“The Myth of Sisyphus”, “The Plague”, “The Stranger” by Camus
Sartre's “Words” and his plays (“The Wall”, etc.)
“Nikolai Pereslegin” by Stepun
Murdoch's “Black Prince”
“The World of Sofia” by Gorder et al.
2° When a “professional writer” addresses philosophical problems:
The novels of F. M. Dostoevsky
Kafka's “Transformation”
“Citadel” and “Night Flight” of the Exupery you mentioned
“Steppenwolf ” and” The Game of Bisser ” by Hesse et al.
Almost all world literature is somehow tied to philosophy (I don't take Dontsova, Bukowski, and the like). In any book, there are moments, dialogues that touch the heart, inspire, make you think. You need to see this, and not think that philosophy is just Nietzsche, Kant or Sartre.
As Stephen King said: “No one starts creating from a happy life, we all create from unhappiness.” And indeed, any work of art conveys to us something that makes us look deeper, look through the eyes of another person. Any creation is pure or diluted philosophy.
I strongly advise you to read I. Yalom (American psychotherapist and writer with an existential bias). For example, the novels “When Nietzsche cried” and “Schopenhauer as medicine”. In them, the main thoughts of these two philosophers are presented in artistic language, against the background of unusual psychotherapeutic stories.
Try reading Bernard Werber – a modern author of very interesting works of art, in which there are many interesting and quite clear reflections about a person, society, the world, etc. And if you want to take a look at a parody of our entire world, then I can recommend the recently deceased Terry Pratchett ( Terry Pratchett) – the author managed to reflect so many aspects of our life and history with the help of satire and English humor. These authors may not be very similar in style to Exupery, but like him, when they ask questions, they try to give them answers or push the reader to them.
Dostoevsky's “Crime and Punishment”
Turgenev “Diary of an extra person”
Mary Shelley's “Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus”
“Pride and Prejudice”
“The Beautiful and the Damned”
Gogol's “Dead Souls”
“Scarecrow”
“Martin Eden” by Jack London and” The Portrait of Dorian Gray ” by Oscar Wilde.
Both books make you think about extremely important topics. The first is whether the powerful are really as cool as they seem; the second is about choosing in life and the eternal balance of good and evil, which is very undesirable to break.
I strongly advise you, they are easy to read 🙂
Small prose by Sartre, Camus. I would especially like to highlight Franz Kafka with his little stories about where any object in the world LIVES: a burrow or a bridge. R. Bach, W. Golding, B. Brecht, P. Suskind, and G. Hesse can also be distinguished.
Any work to one degree or another has some philosophical background (we will not take into account any tabloid pulp fiction). It also depends on the reader's sphere of interest. For example, such authors as Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Remarque, Thomas Mann partly address ethical issues, to a lesser extent ontology, Ayn Rand, Orwell, Zamyatin-socio-philosophical, existentialists such as Sartre, Camus look at ontology from their own point of view. The Strugatskys have a lot of interesting things. But if you really want to read something philosophical but artistic, it's Nietzsche's ” Thus spake Zarathustra.”
Ayn Rand “Atlas Shrugged”, “The Source”.
Very interesting arguments and conclusions about objectivity, values and the structure of the world are presented in an artistic form.
Well, all her other works are also worthwhile.
I will suggest authors that are accessible to ordinary people like me and are not noticed by other responders:
1) Absolutely brilliant Jose Saramago, I will note at least three of his works: “Blindness” – about the true nature of man; “The Gospel of Jesus” – a fundamentally different view of the events described in the Bible; “Interruptions in death” – a book that gives an opportunity to look at death.
2) Peter Heg, a brilliant Danish writer. He touches on philosophical problems in both “Night Stories” and”Smilla and her sense of Snow”, but, first of all, it is worth talking about the book “Conditionally suitable” – a unique novel about questions of time.
Anything from Viktor Olegovich Pelevin
Hesse “Steppenwolf”, “Siddhartha”
Aldous Huxley, “Monkey and Essence”, “Counterpoint”, “Brave New World”
George Orwell's Animal Farm
Jack London “Martin Eden”
“The life of Benvenuto Cellini, written by himself”
Confessions of St. Augustine, Rousseau and Leo Tolstoy
“The life of Archpriest Habakkuk, written by himself”
“The Life of Klim Samgin” by Gorky