GEWORFENHEIT

A man takes his parents to court for the crime of his own birth. From this audacious premise, GEWORFENHEIT unfolds into a fierce and darkly dazzling inquiry into the nature of existence itself. Alba Pratalia stages a trial where Heidegger’s “thrownness” becomes Exhibit A, Benatar’s antinatalism a legal strategy, and the Consent to Exist Doctrine a rallying cry. In a courtroom crowded with philosophers, theologians, mariners, and the Spanish Inquisition, arguments blur between satire and revelation, laughter and unease. With the precision of a legal brief and the lyric force of literature, Pratalia delivers a novel that entertains, disorients, and persuades—leaving the reader to wonder if the most ancient human instinct, to create life, might also be its most elaborate trespass.

Keywords: Heidegger, Sein und Zeit, Geworfenheit, Thrownness, Critique of Pure Reason, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Catcher in the Rye, Roe v. Wade, Book of Job, Kafka, Nietzsche, Pascoli, Baudelaire, Sartre, Anna Karenina, Aristotle, Nagel, Schopenhauer, Parfit, Better Never to Have Been, David Benatar, Kant, Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California, World Happiness Report, Canterbury v. Spence, Cruzan v. Director Missouri Dept. of Health, Camus, Les Fleurs du mal, Evans v. United Kingdom, Pretty v. United Kingdom, Harriton v. Stephens, Curlender v. Bio-Science Laboratories, Turpin v. Sortini, Beauchamp, Childress, Principles of Biomedical Ethics, Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race