At age 16, Branson launched a youth-culture periodical called Student Magazine, sporting columns and interviews from novelists James Baldwin and Alice Walker and existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre.

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Geovani was a fan of existentialist author Albert Camus.

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Nevertheless, the itch returned last year, when, during an extended existentialist spin-out, the same family dog I had abandoned so many years ago dragged himself to my side and refused to leave.

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More commonly, it is read as a story of man's alienation from the socially adhesive forces of family and legal authority (and subsequently from his own motivation and desire), or as a seminal existentialist treatise (to Camus's exasperation).

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