1. Existentialist literature is a literary school that rose in France at the end of 1930s with the purpose of propagating existential philosophy.
 2. With the wide spread of existential philosophy in Europe and the United States, it has had a profound impact on the development of contemporary literature in various countries.
 3. The representative figures of existentialism literature are French Sartre and Camus.
 4. After his philosophical work Imagination was published in 1936, Sartre published his play Aversion in 1938, expressing his views on life and "existence" through literary images.
 5. He believes that "existence", that is, "self", and objective reality are always opposite and cannot be unified. Objective things and society are always against people, threatening themselves everywhere. He believes that "others are my hell". Fear, loneliness, disappointment, abandonment, etc. are the basic feelings of people in the world.
 6. In 1942, Camus' novel "The Outsider" with the same tendency came out, which caused a great response.
 7. Critics believe that the novels of Sartre and Camus represent the birth of a new literary school - existential literature.
 8. In art, existentialist literature embodies a high degree of philosophy in literary works, not seeking the complexity and twists of the plot, but focusing on the philosophical analysis of the mental state of the protagonist.
 9. Existentialism has many influential works in novels, dramas, essays and so on.