Grendel has become one of Gardner's best-known and best-reviewed works. twelve? – and go through them in the voice of the monster, with the story already taken care of, with the various philosophical attitudes (though with Sartre in particular), and see what I could do, see if I could break out." On another occasion, he noted that he "us Grendel to represent Sartre's philosophical position" and that "a lot of Grendel is borrowed from sections of Sartre's Being and Nothingness". In a 1973 interview, Gardner said, "In Grendel I wanted to go through the main ideas of Western civilization – which seemed to me to be about. The novel deals with finding meaning in the world, the power of literature and myth, and the nature of good and evil. In the novel, Grendel is portrayed as an antihero. It is a retelling of part of the Old English poem Beowulf from the perspective of the antagonist, Grendel. Grendel is a 1971 novel by the American author John Gardner.
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