/lit/ - Literature

>>21252906
>Literature to fight this feeling?
In authenticity can't be fought by literature.
You need to engage in praxis.
Pictured is existentialist praxis.

>>20483732
Camus only works if you're a Chad. He doesn't really advocate anything either, he's essentially just describing how the world works once you remove God. The concept of the absurd man is a strange one to me, in Sisyphus, he writes a few examples of ways to live with the absurd, but really if you recognise the absurd then you're living with the absurd already, it's inescapable. He makes an argument that to live a meaningful life then you have to live as much life as possible, but then the core of his argument is that life is meaningless anyway and any attempt to attach meaning to it is foolish. I think broadly he's correct in his description of the world, but as self help it doesn't really reconcile.

>>17851475

Daily reminder that Camus's decision to take a car instead of a train like originally planned ended up killing him.

>Camus had not originally intended to return to Paris in that Facel Vega; his wife, Francine, and their teenage twins, Catherine and Jean, had traveled to Paris by train. Evidently, Gallimard had convinced Camus to ride with his family; the return half of a train ticket was found in Camus’s pocket

Cars, not even once