My high school French teacher had us read Camus and Sartre, and my German teacher had us do post-War literature, some of which was dark e.g. Draußen vor der Tür

My high school French teacher had us read Camus and Sartre, and my German teacher had us do post-War literature, some of which was dark e.g. Draußen vor der Tür. I'm not sure i got any of it at the time, especially since they're nontrivial in original language, I'll have to cover those again.