/lit/ - Literature

>>6888676
I pity this guy. Honestly. He's so detached from reality, and I mean that in the general sense - encompassing everything. He's lacking in spirit, passion, intelligence...

While Sartre's social alienation was endearing and empowering, Camus's was largely self imposed due to his living in defiance of the absurd and supporting French imperialism in Algeria. He's the philosophical equivalent to the mopy attention whore, someone who can't even kill himself and has no hope for anything. And at times, he comes off like an irreverent cunt. Again, not in the charming scoundrel way, but rather like an insecure Simone de Beauvoir on the verge of having an abortion. Early in The Myth of Sisyphus, he talks about how he'll write about the elderly stage of imagining Sisyphus happy once he reaches it. Fitting he dies in a car accident, given how his career crashed and burned.

Camus is the saddest example of hubris and delusional cynicism outside of fictional literature. Ayn Rand had a warmer soul.