How do Lagerkvist's ideas relate to modern existentialism?

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My work grapples with the very questions that haunt modern thought: the search for meaning in a godless universe, the burden of freedom, and the profound sense of alienation. Like many of my contemporaries, I felt the echo of an absent divinity, the silence that stretches across creation. This feeling of being a stranger in reality, of confronting the vast indifference, is a core tenet. The struggle for authenticity, for a semblance of truth, in the face of this cosmic silence is what connects my meditations to the broader existential currents.

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