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Just read: The Stranger (Albert Camus)

I think it was absolutely great, but it actually reminded me a lot of The Trial by Kafka.

Opinions? What is it about? What about the title? Is it about Meursault being a stranger to society's law and order?

>> No.2356977

The Fall is superior but you won't get it

>> No.2356980

But would you recommend it? I'm not studying literature, philosophy or anything, even though I'm planning to.

I had no problem with the two books mentioned in my OP.

I very much like recommendations for further reading. I have 1984 ready, but I want to wait a little. I'm in the absurdity/kafka mode.

>> No.2356982

Fuck Camus. Seriously. I am so fucking bored of you cunts talking about three writers all the time.

PROTIP: Nobody is impressed that you've read some French literature. Nobody.

>> No.2356983

I don't want to impress, I just want recommendations and/or just discussions.

>> No.2356993

>>2356983

Recommendation: read something relevant, maybe that hasn't been written by someone dead for fucking fifty years.

Grow up, be a man and make your own fuckig choices, you prick.

>> No.2356996

>>2356982
you're just a butt resentful hater

>> No.2356998
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>>2356993
>if it was written 50 years ago, it's no longer relevant

>> No.2357001

>>2356993
butthurt much? what is the point of this?

>mfw

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>>2357001
forgot my face

>> No.2357012
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2357012

> mfw trust fund hipsters in starbucks pronounce his name wrong and don't realize it's pronounced 'camoo'

>> No.2357015

>>2357012
0/10
prononce it the french way.

>> No.2357017

[albɛʁ kamy]

>> No.2357018

>>2357015

That is the French way, you spastic.

>fellate a dead French writer all day erryday
>don't speak French

If any of you are reading Camus or Sartre in translation, you are fucking entry level posers.

>> No.2357019

>>2357018
>don't speak French
But i am french.

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>>2357015
>>2357018

> Implying I'm not french.

Fuck you hipsters. Seriously.

>> No.2357021

>>2357019
>>2357020

vous êtes tous deux des menteurs

>> No.2357025

>>2357021
http://vocaroo.com/?media=vymp0TxVtIuo8sMUw
here
fuck you

Also yes, i liked nearly everything of camus, except the fall.

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>>2357018
> If any of you are reading Camus or Sartre in translation, you are fucking entry level posers.

> 2012
> Not owning a rare expensive 1st edition hand signed by the great man himself

>> No.2357046

>>2357021
Et la majuscule, bordel de merde ?

>> No.2357053

>>2357046
Jy is 'n poes

>> No.2357082

>>2357025
Francophone sur "le quatrième channel" confirmé.

>> No.2357160

OP, you should pick up La Peste (The Plague) or Les Justes (or The Just Ones), a short play.

>> No.2357189

>>2357160
Stay the fuck away from the plague, its hurrdurrhololcost memory shit.

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>>2357189

I always thought it was pretty fucking interesting how everyone who likes L'Etranger doesn't like The Plague, and vice-versa.

>> No.2357226

Talked about this before, Camus is simply a poor copy of Kafka.

>> No.2357228

>>2357226

All good 20th century writers are poor copies of Kafka.

>> No.2357231

>>2357228
>good
>copy
Nope

>> No.2357234

>>2357228
>Orwell
>Huxly
>Burgess
>Kerouak
>Steinbeck
Do I need to continue? Camus was simply an unimaginative African who takes credit for Kafka's work by simply rewriting it and turning his outlook into a philosophy (absurdism).

>> No.2357236

>>2357231
>taking the word copy that literally
>nope

>> No.2357237

>>2357231

You're right, 'stolen' is more apt.

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>>2357234

Think seriously about what you just posted.

Do you honestly think that Orwell, Huxley and Burgess were not massively influenced by Kafka?

>> No.2357240

a lot of mad in this thread

>> No.2357243

>>2357239
>being influenced the same as being a copy
costanza.jpg

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>>2357243
see
>>2357236

I never expected such concrete thinking on /lit/.

>> No.2357257

>>2357244
>going back on his words
>what I said isn't what I said
Costanza2012.gif

>> No.2357262

>>2357212
Really? Anyone tell me why?

Read L'etranger a few years ago and thought it was pretty rad, girlfriend bought me the plague a few days ago and I'm planning on reading it. Why won't I like it?

>> No.2357272

>>2357262
Because it's the same book, except some people get a hard on from reading longer works.

The Stranger is simply a longer and unpoetic version of The Myth of Sysiphus

>> No.2357275

>>2357272
NO.

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>>2357257
go back to /sci/, ulillillia.

>>2357262

I'm not entirely sure. Most people enjoy one and find the other boring.

They deal with very similar themes in different ways, The Plague is less philosophically profound and more centric around human drama than L'Etranger.

>> No.2357334

>>2357262

don't try to form an opinion yet especially when you've got people yelling either way. just read it and decide for yourself. I mean you already have the book.

>> No.2357354

Are the penguin/whatever english translations worth reading?