Camus and Columbo? The Unlikely Link Between European Existentialism and American Detective TV Series (opens in new tab)

Camus’s novel A Happy Death and the television series Columbo both address, in their own way, the problem of existential guilt. The surprising similarity between the two stems from a shared source of inspiration: Dostoevsky’s novel Crime & Punishment. Existential guilt is thought to arise after the contemplation of human freedom and the painful […]