The Man Who Walked Alone

A novel about rebellion against existence, the search for meaning, and the cost of clarity in a distracted world.

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About the Book

The Man Who Walked Alone isn’t a manifesto. It’s not a redemption arc, a hero’s journey, or an inspirational parable wrapped in platitudes. This is a book for those who’ve already stared into the abyss—only to find it laughing.

Gregorio M. Roquentin dismantles illusions for a living—philosophical, political, and existential. But when every system collapses under its own contradiction, what’s left to believe in? Reason? Absurdity? A black cat that speaks in riddles?

This is a journey through entropy, memory, and existential whiplash. From the bureaucratic absurdity of SAMSA Corporation to cafés filled with algorithmic optimism, Gregorio’s world is haunted by intelligent ghosts and abandoned truths. Along the way, he faces debates that go nowhere, systems that devour their believers, and reflections that argue back.

If Nietzsche played chess with Camus in a Kafka-designed office, while Schopenhauer brewed the coffee and Sartre live-tweeted—it might look something like this book.

There are no happy endings here. Just questions sharpened into weapons. This isn’t a story of finding meaning—it’s what happens after you stop pretending it exists.

About the Author

G. M. Absurdovich does not seek recognition. He writes as an act of filtration—distilling decades of intellectual clutter, ideological decay, and human contradiction into the cleanest possible cut of thought.

His influences include Nietzsche, Camus, Schopenhauer, broken spreadsheets, collapsing currencies, and those quiet moments when the system blinks but no one else notices.

He created Gregorio not as a protagonist, but as a pressure test. A man built to walk through failure without flinching. To observe without surrendering. To resist without preaching.

He lives in the margins—between systems, across disciplines, inside contradictions. He is not available for interviews. He has already said everything he needed to say.

Themes and Motifs

Absurdity: Gregorio walks through systems that pretend to be rational, only to find they’re powered by contradictions and delusions.

Entropy and Collapse: Collapse isn’t catastrophe—it’s just gravity with paperwork.

Philosophy in Practice: Gregorio lives Nietzsche, Camus, and Schopenhauer—sharply and without apology.

The Trap of Systems: Every system he enters tries to seduce him. But Gregorio’s learned: all systems have bugs. The worst infest your thinking.

Loneliness as Sovereignty: He’s not lost. He’s alone on purpose. Freedom is the absence of performance.

Meaning through Action: Gregorio’s final act isn’t rational. It’s real. That’s enough.

Rational Absurdism: A New Literary Archetype

Gregorio M. Roquentin is not Meursault. He is not Gregor Samsa, nor Sartre’s Antoine, nor Dostoevsky’s Underground Man. Those men crumbled under the weight of meaninglessness. Gregorio walks through it—deliberately, tactically, with clear eyes and no illusions.

Rational Absurdism is not a philosophy. It is a response. It emerges after the epiphany of absurdity, after the loss of faith, after the collapse of narrative—and instead of dissolving, it chooses motion. Gregorio doesn’t escape the void; he navigates it like a strategist moving through fog.

The absurd is real. But so is precision. Gregorio trains, reflects, and acts—not because meaning awaits, but because action itself is the final rebellion. He is not redeemed. He is not enlightened. He is functional.

In Gregorio, absurdism becomes something new: lucid, structured, and unwilling to groan.

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Gregorio as Synthesis — and Evolution

Gregorio is more than a collage of existential ideas. He is their natural conclusion—updated for a world of collapsing economies, digital surveillance, and postmodern meaning fatigue.

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The Mental Map of Gregorio

Not a man in search of meaning—
a man who builds structure inside the meaningless.

Rational Absurdism

  • Acting without faith
  • Clarity as rebellion
  • Discipline over despair

Collapse as Structure

  • Economic entropy
  • Systemic absurdity
  • Bureaucratic theater

Solitude as Sovereignty

  • Non-performance
  • Inner independence
  • Mastery through isolation

Entropy and Motion

  • Scheduled resistance
  • Strategic detachment
  • Progress without destination

Lucid Resistance

  • Weaponized clarity
  • Refusing to groan
  • Absurd logic, functional life

The System as Theater

  • Samsa Corporation
  • Compliance as camouflage
  • Playing the fool without being fooled

Quotes from the Book

“Every time someone tells me to 'just be myself,' I wonder if they’ve considered the consequences.”

Read an Excerpt

Amsterdam pulsed with the illusion of order. Gregorio M. Roquentin—skeptic, strategist, and wanderer of absurdities—watched the Westerkerk clock tick with mechanical arrogance.

No partner. No children. Just a cactus named Pascal and a mind that refused to shut up.

If you've ever stared into the abyss and smirked, this is your book.

Fragments from the Abyss

A glimpse into Gregorio’s descent — where silence thinks louder than noise.

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