/lit/ - Literature

>>16320038
>Writes Le Chute once

>>15463547
I miss this nigga like you wouldn't believe

>>15445061
Yeah man the first time I read it the style of writing made it take me longer than normal to read it, so I had strong opinions about the man from the bar. That reveal was a fucking stunner. Most of the scholarship on it is in French, not english mon cherie.

>>15417212
You're the one reading a novel about coming face to face with the meaninglessness of existence and somehow managing to conclude that the character is a sociopath. The last sections of the book fundamentally refute your midwit take on Mersault as a sociopath. In fact, when yelling at the priest Mersault talks about how no one has any right to pass judgement on him for reacting to situations in a way they don't understand.
>>15417231
>Meursault is supposed to represent the nihilist man
Here's something from Camus for both of you:

>I summarized The Stranger a long time ago, with a remark I admit was highly paradoxical: "In our society any man who does not weep at his mother's funeral runs the risk of being sentenced to death." I only meant that the hero of my book is condemned because he does not play the game.
The fact that you both see Mersault as anything other than a person facing the absurd is fucking retarded.

>>15334086
>>15334076
Didn't realize Sartre came back to life just to fling shit at Camus posters.

>>15289630
>absurdism because it has no meaning
>>15289669
>Absurdism is trying to find meaning in a meaningless world
Both you tards are wrong. Absurdism is the idea that idea humans are fundamentally locked into a search for meaning, and will never find it. Not that it doesn't exist, or that it has no meaning. Fucking pseuds.

>>15227457
Why would I avoid the plague? Rieux is fucking based. Fuck man I wish I had a friend like Tarrou.

>>15209356
honhonhon...

>>14984845
He loved women and women loved him. Instead of raging all the time, read.

>>14847723
its a shame really. Instead of living the life of some recluse German sage, french men chat up chicks and COOM anytime they can.

>>14809358

>>14682764
>Hegel: "Only the modern city offers the mind the terrain in which it can be conscious of itself." Significant. This is the time of big cities. The world has been amputated of a part of its truth, of what makes its permanence and its equilibrium: nature, the sea, etc. There is consciousness only in the city streets!

>For a thought to change the world, it must first change the life of the man who carries it. It must become an example.