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Just finished The Stranger and thought the ending fell short. What should I read next /lit/.

ITT: FAVORITE BOOKS

>> No.5615152

>>5615149
Kafka

>> No.5615164

learn german and read Rumo by walter moers.
Best book I know. read it more than 5 times...

>> No.5615256

>>5615152

I second this.

Specifically The Metamorphosis.

>> No.5615539

>>5615256
I got little tiny BUG FEET
I don't even know what BUGS EAT

>> No.5615546

>>5615539
is this kanye lyrics?

>> No.5615571

Also Sprach Zarathustra

>> No.5615574

>>5615546
LIVIN' LIKE A BUG AIN'T ESSSAYYYY

>> No.5617802
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5617802

>>5615149

Myth of Sisyphus. I'm convinced Meursault is an literary example of the absurdist philosophy laid out in that book.

>> No.5617811

>>5615546
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uaaF83eVig

>> No.5617827

>>5617802
>I'm convinced Meursault is an literary example of the absurdist philosophy laid out in that book.
I hope it didn't take much convincing because there is absolutely nothing that would lead someone to believe otherwise

>> No.5617962

Help me /lit/, I can't decide which book to buy tomorrow between these two: The Stranger or The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano.

Which one would you recommend to buy first?

>> No.5617964

House of Peeves

>> No.5618089

>>5617827

Explain yourself.

>> No.5618617

>>5618089
The Stranger was written to showcase Camus' philosophy and for no other purpose. Mersault exists to demonstrate absurdism.

>> No.5618638

>>5617802
Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal. I'm convinced John Galt is an literary example of the objectivist philosophy laid out in that book.

>> No.5618752

>>5617962
Bolano always

>> No.5618757

>>5615149
It is a weak version of Notes From the Underground.

>> No.5618855

>>5618617

Now if that's the case, why is there such a incongruity between Meursault's meltdown on the priest in his jail cell with the optimistic revolt that makes Sisyphus the ideal and not the Don Juan or the Actor?

>> No.5618858

>>5615149
Dostoevsky, then Kafka

>> No.5618881

Am I the only that finds The Fall more interesting than The Stranger?

>> No.5619008

>>5618855
The fact that Camus wrote The Stranger and Myth of Sisyphus and was writing both essays largely in the context of philosophy.
inb4
>authorial intent is dead
We both know that's a pussy response.

>> No.5619016

>>5617802
Jesus, at least you didn't call him an existentialist like a pleb.

>> No.5619023

>>5619016
Absurdism is a form of existentialism.

>> No.5619140

>>5619023
And Camus died saying he was not an existentialist.

>> No.5619728

>>5619140
Because he outgrew the shitty movement he was intimately involved in, yeah.

>> No.5619732

Test

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5620721

>>5619008

>both essays

One is a novel friend, but the fact that they were published the same year doesn't entail they must have that kind of relationship.

I'm not aware of anything Camus ever said anything in interviews or in his posthumously published notebooks that gives an explicit between The Myth and The Stranger.

So the only avenue left open is to establish something from both texts, which I think would make for an interesting project for anyone who doesn't quite get the novel but wants more out of it.

I totally agree at first glance Mearsault is someway connected to The Myth, but I've never seen a good argument laid out that shows it. Where does he fit?

>> No.5620734

>>5619016

Wouldn't matter if I did. That's just a taxonomy we use to group thematically related works together. Its not like there are necessary and sufficient conditions to being an existentialist.