Kathmandu’s absurdist anti-hero

Following Albert Camus’ Mersault, Saurav Thapa’s ‘The Absurdist of Kathmandu’ introduces Nepali readers to their philosophising protagonist.

Mukti, the protagonist of ‘The Absurdist of Kathmandu’, is a culturally ravenous and delightfully insufferable individual. He sculpts his identity through his furious consumption of a carefully curated collection of philosophy books. On any given day, Mukti might be an existentialist, a cynic, a nihilist, or an anarchist—whichever ideology fits his mood and serves his whims.