Short Stories
Description
Longleaf Pine Trees (1943) extends Moen's metaphilosophical exploration of the absurd through a story showing how every decision can lead to an arbitrary result. To Cut Down a Tree (1944) — part clerk's notes, part narration of environmental activism — brings his philosophy to its fullest development: "Freedom is living the arbitrary."
Genre
Novellas, metaphilosophy
Distribution
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The Lonely Man
Eliot Moen
Psychological, philosophical
The Lonely Man
Carkougen's Massacre
Eliot Moen
Eliot Moen's Carkougen's Massacre (1934) is a psychological and philosophical novel about a family undergoing slow separation due to unnatural aspects of life ranging from political to societal issues that directly affect their mental well-being, bonds and relationships.
Carkougen's Massacre
What Society Allows
Eliot Moen
Moen's last major novel: a dense and fierce critique of society, morality, culture and ethical authority, written on the edge of a Europe that had already decided what it would allow.
What Society Allows
In and Out of the Camp
Eliot Moen
Autobiographical notes in which Moen describes and narrates his daily life in the camp, and how the experience demonstrated to him the ironic conclusions toward which his philosophy had led.
In and Out of the Camp