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Franz Kafka, a 20th-century writer, is renowned for his exploration of themes such as alienation and absurdity. Akhtar Mohi-u-din is a Kashmiri fiction writer.. His stories are known for their innovative descriptions, unique narrative styles, and captivating presentations. His literary efforts opened new avenues for future storytellers and enriched the Kashmiri storytelling tradition. Existentialism is a philosophy of the twentieth century. It analyses the existence of human beings and throws light on the way they find themselves existing in the world. Two nineteenth century thinkers, Soren Aabye Kierkegaard, a Dane, and Friedrich Nietzsche, a German, are recognized as initiators of the movement particularly in their concept of the individual existent, as also in their diagnosis of the modern human predicament. In fact Kierkegaard is regarded as the father of existentialism. He maintained that the individual has the sole responsibility for giving one's own life meaning and to live life passionately and sincerely despite many obstacles and distractions including despair, angst,absurdity, choice and death. Existentialism is a philosophy concerned with finding self and the meaning of life through free will, choice and personal responsibility. It is a philosophical movement oriented towards two major themes such as, the analysis of human existence and the centrality of human choice. Both Kafka and Mohi-u-din are writers who write beyond existentialism. Kafka ends "Metamorphoses" with a note of despair and Akhtar ends his story "Weed" with a note of hope. The paper aims to prove that Kaka and Akhtar portray something beyond Angst, absurdity and death, beyond good and evil, angst, irrational world. Thus the paper shall explore their existential journey from "Umwelt to Uberwelt": the two important dimensions of existential philosophy.