/lit/ - Literature

Just finished The Plague. Fucking loved it. Thought it was better than The Stranger but not as good as The Myth of Sisyphus. Anyone else love Camus? What's your favorite by him and why?

Camus general.

Thoughts on Part II /lit/?

>>528720

He supported a marxian communist newspaper, when he was younger, later denouncing communsim, marxism, and all forms of individually involuntary "socialism."

Camus supported primarily individualist anarchists like the Bonnot Gang.

>he believed in proletarian revolution

You obviously know nothing about the man's post-left evolution. Go read An Ethic Superior to Murder or any of his critiques of Marxism. He specifically attacked the idiotic and collectvist notion of "revolution of the proletariat" for ignoring the individual via abstract claim to universal redemption through some mystical and mystifying liberation by a "class."

Objectively speaking, you are apparently quite ignorant of the man's work.

I don’t know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it. What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists me — that I understand. And these two certainties — my appetite for the absolute and for unity and the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle — I also know that I cannot reconcile them. What other truth can I admit without lying, without bringing in a hope I lack and which means nothing within the limits of my conditions?

Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty.

>>458219
yep

The famous ‘going beyond’ Marxism in an idealistic and humanitarian direction is a joke and an idle dream. It is impossible to ‘go beyond’ Marx, for he himself carried his thought to its extreme logical consequences. The Communists have a solid logical basis for using lies and violence … All I ask is that, in the midst of a murderous world, we agree to reflect on murder and to make a choice. After that, we can distinguish those who accept the consequences of being murderers themselves or the accomplices of murderers, and those who refuse to do so with all their force and being.

Since this terrible dividing line does actually exist, it will be a gain if it be clearly marked. Over the expanse of five continents throughout the coming years an endless struggle is going to be pursued between violence and friendly persuasion, a struggle in which, granted, the former has a thousand times the chances of success than that of the latter. But I have always held that, if he who bases his hopes on human nature is a fool, he who gives up in the face of circumstances is a coward. And henceforth, the only honourable course will be to stake everything on a formidable gamble: that words are more powerful than munitions.
- Albert Camus, The Self-Deception of the Socialist

>>425927
The Bonnot gang were individualist anarchists, genius... and he supported them insofar as they were in opposition to the State. He was, after all, primarily an individualist.

Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for he common good ends in failure.
- Albert Camus, The Rebel

Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for he common good ends in failure.
- Albert Camus, The Rebel

Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for he common good ends in failure.
- Albert Camus, The Rebel