存在主义文学于20世纪诞生于欧美大陆,是特定历史时期的一种文学现象,具有其存在的独特价值。作为20世纪流行于欧美的一种新兴的文艺思潮流派,它即代表着存在主义哲学的核心思想,同时也将其哲学思想衍生到文学中来。但具体说来,存在主义是在二战之后才明确地以一种文学形式出现的,主要表现在法国文学中,在40年代之后的十多年里,法国文学迎来了它的高潮期,这就使得存在主义的思想也跟随着文艺潮流感染到了欧美大陆甚 Existentialist literature was born in Europe and the United States in the 20th century. It is a literary phenomenon in a particular historical period and has its own unique value. As a new genre of literary and artistic ideas popularized in Europe and the United States in the 20th century, it represents the core idea of ​​existentialism philosophy and at the same time derives its philosophical thought into literature. Existentialism, in particular, did not explicitly appear as a literary form after the Second World War, mainly in French literature, and French literature ushered in its climax in more than a decade after the 1940s It made the ideology of existentialism also follow the trend of literary and artistic trends in Europe and the United States