/lit/ - Literature

Don't worry, Camus is here to make you feel happy!

>The struggle itself ... is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

neither

I almost was. I'm over it, now.

>>4716839
>>4716849
>muh all or nothing mentality

>>4689175
mah nigga

Absurdism beats Existentialism, so

incomprehensible, so try not to sweat it too much

Are you a nihilist?

>>3375735
Yes, my son. I have come back to tell you all to repent and accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour.

>>3275457
No one true philosophy. But the best answer is obviously Absurdism. Pic related.

Just read the stranger.
Thoughts about his works?

>read The Stranger at 16
>become a deep and edgy teenager
>now I live in an eternal existential crisis

thank you based Camus

>read The Stranger at 16
>become a deep and edgy teenager
>now I live in an eternal midlife crisis

thank you based Camus

http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1.Best_Books_Ever

Why?

Why do you try to escape the meaningless void that is your life by consuming literature that imposes meaning onto its characters? Don't you know that it's all futile in the end?

>being little babies suffering in despair
Just accept life for what it is you wailing pussies.

My heart burns for a complete version of The First Man.

Not just that, the man was still young. Who knows what other masterpieces he would've written?

>>2228817
Camus has one too. Is it a French thing?

*Depressing-tier*

>Franz Kafka:
The Trial
The Castle

>Jean-Paul Sartre:
Nausea
The Wall
No Exit
Being and Nothingness
Existentialism is a Humanism
Critique of Dialectical Reason

>Albert Camus:
The Stranger
The Fall
The Myth of Sisyphus

>Friedrich Nietzsche:
Human, All Too Human
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
The Antichrist
The Will to Power

>Søren Kierkegaard:
Either/Or
The Sickness Unto Death

>Yukio Mishima:
Confessions of a Mask
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

>Meša Selimović:
Death and the Dervish

>David Foster Wallace:
Infinite Jest

>George Orwell:
1984

>John Steinbeck:
The Grapes of Wrath
Of Mice and Men
East of Eden

>Fyodor Dostoyevsky:
Crime and Punishment

>Haruki Murakami:
Norwegian Wood

Arthur Schopenhauer's stuff.

Also list that's probably worth checking:
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1154.Most_Depressing_Book_of_all_time

OH HEY GUYS WHATS GOING ON IN THIS THREAD

>>2023044

Is that so?

ALL YOU MUTHAFUCKAS DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO
WHOS IN THE HOUSE? ALBERT FUCKING CAMUS!

Y'ALL THINK LIFE MEANS SHIT FOLLOWING THE HERD
BUT EXISTENCE IS FUTILE AND INHERENTLY ABSURD

SO YOU PUSSY ASS FAGGOTS START PULLING OUT YOUR HAIR
WALLOWING AROUND IN EXISTENTIAL DESPAIR

SO YOU PUT IN YOUR MOUTH A SEMIAUTO COLT
BUT YOU SHOULDNT DESPAIR, YOU SHOULD FUCKING REVOLT!

AND WHATS ALL THIS BULLSHIT ABOUT SOME FAGGOT NAMED GOD?
HES NOT FUCKING REAL YOU DUMBASS FUCKING SOD

THE STRUGGLE IS ENOUGH WITHOUT SOME BULLSHIT REASON
MAKING YOUR OWN MEANING? SHITS LIKE PHILOSOPHICAL TREASON

LIFES ENOUGH ON ITS OWN, FULL OF MEANINGLESS BEAUTY
BUT YOURE TOO SCARED TO LIVE WITHOUT SOME PREDETERMINED DUTY

WHAT'S THE WORD?
LIFE'S ABSURD!
NO HEAVEN, NO HELL!
SO REVOLT! REBEL!

Me? Not the best writer?
How absurd!

WHY OH WHY CAMUS DIDNT YOU TAKE THE TRAIN OH SWEET TAPDANCING CHRIST CUNTS WHYYYYYYY