/lit/ - Literature

Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été.

>>15209250
Come again?

Was Camus a stoic?

Why did we effectively abolish the death penalty in the first world? Was it a good idea?

This is not even a challenge

>>14231952
Life is absurd, bro.

>>14189824

Camus cheated on his second wife so often that she almost killed herself over it.

"At one point she attempted to throw herself from a balcony, whether to escape the hospital or to kill herself is not known.[6] Her depression was blamed in part on her husband's infidelities, and above all on his affair with María Casares. Camus told Francine, "They think I'm the guilty one." [7]

Shortly after being awarded the Nobel Prize, Albert Camus mentioned in a letter to her cousin Nicole Chaperon how he was moved by the generosity of Francine, “whom I have never stopped loving in my bad way." In the same letter he said that Francine had “forgiven” him.[8]

She and Camus are buried together in Lourmarin."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francine_Faure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28dKxawmdbQ

- Jean-Paul Sartre : Nausea
- Jean-Paul Sartre : The Wall
- Jean-Paul Sartre : Plays
- Jean-Paul Sartre : Words
- Jean-Paul Sartre : Being and Nothingness ( really hard unless you have philosophical experience )


- Albert Camus : The Stranger
- Albert Camus : The Plague
- Albert Camus : The Fall
- Albert Camus : Exile and the Kingdom
- Albert Camus : The Myth of Sisyphus
- Albert Camus : The Rebel
- Albert Camus : Resistance, Rebellion, and Death
- Albert Camus : Caligula and Other Plays: Caligula; Cross Purpose; The Just; The Possessed (Penguin Modern Classics)
- Albert Camus : A Happy Death
- Albert Camus : The First Man
- Albert Camus : Lyrical and Critical Essays (Vintage International)
- Albert Camus : Notebooks 1935-1942: Volume 1
- Albert Camus : Notebooks 1945-1951: Volume 2

He's neither a pseud nor a savior. Make of him what you will, and don't let /lit/ tell you what to think.

Everyman has a 700+ pages long compilation of The Stranger, The Plague, The Fall, The Myth of Sisyphus, and Reflections on the Guillotine for like 12 euros. Hardcover, sewn binding, the usual Everyman deal. It's a good choice for getting to know his ideas if you don't want to read all of his works.

Good luck.

>>13731601
>The best way for you to put an end to your existencial crisis is to consider suicide.
Heh...leave it to me, kid.

>>13663984
The absurdness of life begets the freedom to pursue one's own goals. Death nullifies all, and absolves all, kid.

>>13651313
Kill yourself kid... or don't.

>>12915865
Why would I? Meaninglessness seems pretty good so far.

>>12887419
I refuse.

Drop ur gay bible and read this man instead

>>12501258
Unironically read his books

What's his best or most entertaining book? Its not The Myth of Sysiphus lmao.

>>11970257
Stay mad.

*shoots you 6 times*

So, have you admitted I'm right yet?

>Albert Camus
>he's intelligent, nihilistic and with a wicked sense of humor - much like myself

>blocks you're path

is Camus the most attractive author ever?

>>10085953
I'm a dumb edgy teen (twenty technically) and most of my peers who claim to know Nietzsche just take the idea that life has no intrinstic meaning and use it to justify their debauchery and profligacy.

Me? I prefer Camus.