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    A Man Becomes His Self: A Novella for Lost Souls

    By Mathijs Koenraadt

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    A man goes looking for himself, but he does not like what he finds. Backpacking through Iceland, the aspiring artist has a sexual encounter with a Nordic woman. He leaves her the next day but soon finds himself grappling with the emptiness of being. In order to save his soul, he must find his self. Side by side, they engage in a 'chaoskampf', a mythical battle against the snake that holds both captive. Will the soul come to terms with the self? This novella is a work of literary fiction dealing with the question of what it means to be 'me'. It contains themes of sexuality, metaphysics, and existentialism. The work is not meant for light-hearted readers.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMathijs Koenraadt
    Release dateDec 15, 2018
    ISBN9780463291283
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    A Man Becomes His Self: A Novella for Lost Souls
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    Mathijs Koenraadt

    Mathijs Koenraadt /mɑtɛis kunraːt/ (1980) writes about people's struggles with the collectives trying to assimilate them. He denies the materialist worldview, which says everything is mere matter in motion, that people have no free will, or that selfish genes determine our behaviors. Instead, Koenraadt offers a view of the world as minds competing for power. He coined the phrase 'ignorant god' to signify a collective Being unaware of its creative powers. (E-mail me: mkoenraadt@gmail.com)

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