Theman alone is a literarystock character. Usually anantihero, he is similar to theByronic hero. The man alone tends to epitomiseexistentialism, and, in the words of the academic E. H. McCormick is "the solitary, rootless nonconformist, who in a variety of forms crops up persistently in New Zealand writing".^[1]

Men alone figure frequently in the literature of newly settled or recently colonised countries such asAustralia and especiallyNew Zealand,^[2] and the term is likely to have found popularity with the publication of the "Great Kiwi Novel",Man Alone byJohn Mulgan in 1939 (this novel's title itself originated in a quotation fromErnest Hemingway'sTo Have and Have Not).^[3]

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