Existentialism in Sādeq Chubak's The Baboon Whose Buffoon Was Dead

This article investigates a few basic concepts of Existentialism such as excluding existentia necessaria or necessary being from social and individual relations, detachment, loneliness, and anxiety in one of the most successful prose works of Sādeq Chubak, “The Baboon Whose Buffoon was Dead”. Fidings of the research demonstrate that the story is highly influenced by these concepts, and through employing a symbolic language, it deals with the existential obsessions of the people whose world is nothing but a process of destruction. The protagonist can be seen as the representative of contemporary man who does his best not to be drowned and preserve some principles and values that might be a release from this catastrophic situation, but in this attempt he neglects the positive function of future and his life turns out to be no more than a deadlock.