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Anonymous Fri Aug 27 04:03:00 2010 No.1078496 [Reply] [Original]

so i love this book, not really for the absurdism and existential philosophies in touches upon, but for his style and the imagery he used, specifically in the confrontation at the spring. it was wonderful to read it and ive reread this book thrice in the past week.

so can someone recommend me something to read now based on what i just wrote and how i feel about it.

>>	Special Agent Dale !CoOperRA66 Fri Aug 27 04:06:00 2010 No.1078502 Camus modeled his writing style for The Stranger on authors like Hemmingway, with to-the-point, terse sentences. as I recall, he described it as a whole as an "American style"

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 27 04:10:00 2010 No.1078511 Read The Rebel

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 27 04:12:00 2010 No.1078515 >>1078502 >>1078511 thanks ive always meant to read both those suggestions would you like to recommend where i should start with hemmingway. he does have an awful lot of praise going to many books, which should i choose to read first

Special Agent Dale !CoOperRA66 Fri Aug 27 04:16:00 2010 No.1078520

>>1078515
well, his first big novel was The Sun Also Rises. a lot of people start and stop there.

probably his best regarded novel is For Whom the Bell Tolls.

my personal favorite is A Farewell to Arms. think of it as a romance filtered through modernism.

I wouldn't recommend The Old Man and the Sea, but it is brief. think I read the entire thing in a waiting room once.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 27 04:20:00 2010 No.1078523 >>1078520 I READ A FAREWELL TO ARMS WHEN I WAS 13 OR 14 BY A RECOMMENDATION OF SOMEONE ON A RANDOM FORUM ON MYSPACE. LOVED IT, AND STILL DO.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 27 04:23:00 2010 No.1078528 are hemmingway's short stories worth a look at. im saying this before actually researching whether he has any, im sure he does

>>	Special Agent Dale !CoOperRA66 Fri Aug 27 04:30:00 2010 No.1078537 >>1078528 yes, his short stories are excellent

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 27 04:51:00 2010 No.1078552 Whatever by: Michel Houellebecq >French >Descriptive Existentialism with a dash of Nihilism >Only 180 pages

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 27 05:17:00 2010 No.1078576 >>1078496 This is my fave novel also. What I'd recommend to you on that note is Jean Paul Sartre's 'Nausea'.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 27 05:21:00 2010 No.1078582 >>1078576 Camus' and Sartre's style are nothing alike. Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar" is similar in both writing and theme. I'd recommend it to anyone who enjoys The Stranger.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 27 05:26:00 2010 No.1078586 >>1078582 Nausea is VERY descriptive, which is what I think the OP was partly after. But I agree the styles differ greatly; Sartre is much more verbose.

>>	Special Agent Dale !CoOperRA66 Fri Aug 27 05:27:00 2010 No.1078589 >>1078576 ugh, definitely not Nausea. I can read his drama and his essays, but god damn was Sartre a shitty novelist

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