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How does /lit/ feel Albert Camus? I read the stranger in high school and now starting on the plague
>dat existentialism

>> No.2995922

/lit/-Camus, Joyce, DFW, I just read Dune, Nietzsche, Borges, Pynchon, Hitchens, hey /lit/, /mu/ here, poetry, critique on loop

>> No.2995920

>dat babby's first existentialism

though don't get me wrong OP, i personally like him a lot. his fiction style oozes existentialism, even if it gives you more of a feeling than a concrete analysis. if you want to understand The Stranger a bit more, along with camus's views, read The Myth of Sisyphus. also sartre has a book called Existentialism Is A Humanism that usually has a review and analysis of The Stranger in the back.

>> No.2995924

>>2995920
great thanks for the response

>> No.2995929

>>2995912
The Rebel is often overlooked and IMO his best work.
Sartre is someone else you'll likely be interested in as well; particularly Nausea.

>> No.2995934

Decent entry-level stuff.

>> No.2995975
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2995975

Get on my level.

>> No.2995987

>>2995934

I hate it when people call him entry level. Like some dickhead on 4chan made quick sense of his entire corpus and has moved onto bigger and better things

>> No.2995989

>>2995929
I agree, I loved Rebel. I also enjoyed Fall and Exile and Kingdom.
I also agree about your Sartre statement. Nausea was good.

>> No.2995993

>>2995987
But, he did. Thousands of us did. Camus is good, don't get me wrong, but his insights are kind of shallow and very easy to grasp (thus their wide appeal amongst the angsty).

He still beats the hell out of Sarte.

>> No.2995998

>>2995987
>>2995993
Being entry-level doesn't necessarily mean incorrect. Being popular and easily understandable might suggest that you've only read it because it's famous (and not due to any inherent worth), but it does not guarantee that. Often, the most widely read philosophers are those ones for a reason.

>> No.2996017

>>2995993

Sartre was a professor of phenomonology and a Marxism critic, not a fiction writer...Camus was a fiction writer

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>>2995975

>> No.2996020
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>>2995912
Camus does what few other philosophers are able to; that is, he actually speaks to you. Reading him is like having conversation with him. That's what makes him so likeable. In France he is contentious voted one of the most popular authors, simply because people see him as a friend. His crime against philosophy is that he didn't make it hard, which we all know is suicide for philosophy.
I adore him

>> No.2996026

>>2996020
He didn't commit a crime against philosophy you guys just aren't allowed to call him a philosopher. He wasn't. He wrote an essay about the reaction he had to learning some thing about philosophy. He didn't do any philosophical enquiry. Never advanced philosophical thinking in anyway way. He was not a philosopher.

However, he is a very talented writer of fiction, up there with Hemingway imo.

>> No.2996036

>>2996026
Is this a joke? He was a philosopher. Just because he used narrative to prove his philosophy doesn't mean he isn't one.

>> No.2996047

I thought the stranger was boring.

>> No.2996049

don't like absurdism

therefore will not read

physicalism is getting closer and closer to it's death
we just need that one genius to really end it

>> No.2996078

>>2996036
>>2996036
It's not about the narrative it's about the lack of philosophy. He had no ideas on metaphysics or logic, analytic or continental thought. He related a Greek myth to fighting Nihilism.

>> No.2996080

>>2996078
So that people would stop killing themselves

>> No.2996082

>>2996078
> He related a Greek myth to fighting Nihilism
And a damn good job he did of it too. What's your point?

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>>2996078
Your definition of what philosophy is, is lacking. Philosophy is more of an attitude, than a system were one thinks about certain subjects in certain ways. Read some more Wittgenstein and be gone with ye

>> No.2997157

>>2996096
Go back to beating elementary school kids, Ludwig.


I do adore you though.

>> No.2997186

>people still grouping Camus -- and calling him -- and Existentialist

In the goddamn year 2012, this still goes on.