Title: Man’s Search for Meaning
Author: Viktor E. Frankl
Type: Non-Fiction
Page Count/Review Word Count: 165
Rating: 4/5
This is one of those books that I’d heard a ton about and so I’d been keeping my eyes peeled and looking out for it in the charity shops.
It’s essentially Frankl’s memoir of his time spent in German concentration camps during the Second World War, as well as his observations on the way that it affected people. In perhaps the ultimate case of finding the good in every situation, he was able to look at psychology and philosophy and to observe the way that people found meaning in their lives even in the most hellish of places.
For example, he talked about how if the prisoners smoked their cigarettes, it was a sure fire sign that they’d given up and were expecting to die. Otherwise, they would have kept them and used them to trade for food and stuff.
