/lit/ - Literature

>>20886575

wtf he is literally me

i killed a man and felt nothing.


wtf

what did Camus mean by this?

How is this book both universally panned on here and consistently in the ‘/lit top 100 books’ charts? Is it even worth reading?

He is literally me minus the fact that i don't hang out with retards.
I just want casual sex and do projects. I really feel empty most of the times. The thought of intimacy and love and vulnerability that comes with it scares me.

Why do people work 40hr/week office jobs?
>to make money
This is not true, there is almost nobody who actually works so they can have money in their bank account.
>To use money to do things that they want to.
This isn't true either, because virtually every single thing that people like to do can be done without working a wage job.
Like to hike? Why work in an office when you can just be unemployed and go to the park on weekends, or just work part time at a national park.
Like to play golf? Work at a golf course part-time and they will let you play for free at least once a week.
Like to surf? They're called beach bums for a reason.
>To support their family.
This is incredibly inexpensive. If you want your kids to not go hungry I'm pretty sure you can figure it out. Similarly with shelter and clothes. If you want to give your kids a good education just get a part time job as a janitor or a landscaper or something at a snotty private school and send them there. (Or just teach them yourself).

So what do you think /lit/? Why does our current work culture exist? I have a few ideas myself but I'd be more interested in hearing what you have to say.

I just started reading this book, I guess it's good so far but I don't really get it.

>>17976530
>If I'm going to be locked away in a tiny room for years, I want to at least have memories of pleasant things to draw from, like the smell of the ocean or wind through trees.

Reading from Albert Camus The Stranger pg 94

"After a while however i'd learned the trick of remembering things, i never had a moments boredom. Sometimes I would exercise my memory on my bedroom... So I learned that even after a single day's experience of the outside world a man could easily live a hundred years in prison. He'd have laid up enough memories never to be bored. Obviously, in one way, this was a compensation."

The virgin cope vs the chad compensation.

Thinking, the whole point of this hypothetical >>17974945
is to show how one would deal with pure silence. Solitary is to deprive a man of worthwhile experience, so all that remains is the mind and memories, your imagination. But then in the end, you have death to contend with, and your choices, the life that you lived. I think I might make another thread later when this one starts to die, on books one should read before your execution.

what does /lit/ think of this book? I liked it but it feels like a book with an obvious point. It was more "good" or "deep" than beautiful (not to say it didn't have moments of beauty). There is also 0 subtlety

Why is this book so revered? I don't think I understood it.

I don't get it bros...

looking for short, dark novels i.e.
>the stranger by camus
>the goalie's anxiety at the penalty kick by handke
>i have the right to destroy myself by kim young-ha
>piercing by ryu murakami

Was he autistic?

give me your best and shortest novels. just got done with pic related and need more short stuff to make a habit of reading

other books with autistic protagonists?

>>13545770
The Stranger

Meursault reminded classmates of me (without the loving gf)

God does not exist and the man who is alone in front of the universe lives without any moral law, according to the limits that he himself imposes.
Christcucks BTFO.

>lol the struggle is enough, just enjoy the journey bro
Fuck off, that's easy for a famous French guy who gets anything he wants to say

I never got why people think it’s one of the greatest and most important books of all time. Yes it’s good but not that good. The second part of the book is still relatable because 80 years later people still care more about irrelevant trivial things than the important ones and will try to ruin your life if you step out of the norm even though they’ll judge you for something different than they would back then. And I think that it won’t change even 500 years from now that’s why this book will be relevant long after people won’t even know what Algeria was. Personally the thing I enjoyed the most about this book was the newspaper story about that Czechoslovakian guy. Also Meursault will be forever based for killing a mudslime maybe a little bit of a cuck for agreeing to marry Marie just because she wanted to but that still won’t change his overall basedness.

*head like a hole starts playing

what's the deal with the "robot woman" and the reporter who watch Mersault during the trial?

>kills an arab and shoots his dead corpse for no reason
>lol! shit's absurd!
Holy... So this is the power of French philosophy?