[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/lit/ - Literature

View post   
File: 15 KB, 537x360, Albert-Camus.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
9977722 No.9977722 [Reply] [Original]

The fact that he died at fucking 46 is the most bullshit thing ever. It's not fair bros, there was so much more for him to do.

>> No.9977729

>>9977722
Like what?

>> No.9977743

>>9977729
Write good shit and resist the childish throttle of nihilism.

>> No.9978831

That's what you get for being le edgy smoker man!

>> No.9978879

yeah bro just like be yourself bro

>> No.9978881
File: 277 KB, 469x452, 1503264229728.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
9978881

>>9977722

>> No.9978900

>>9978831
He died in a car accident

>>9977722
He peaked pretty early imo. The Fall is a bad book, just him beating that same dead horse. The Plague is his best and I doubt he could have topped it. I can see why people like >>9978881 dislike him, his philosophy isn't very nuanced and his novels are just a vehicle for it. Like, everything contained in The Stranger and Sisyphus should be self-apparent to someone living in this day and age. He could occasionally bust out some moving passages though, but nothing to warrant the reputation he now has.

>> No.9978903

>>9978900
I know but karma is a bitch.

>> No.9978914

>>9978900
>Like, everything contained in The Stranger and Sisyphus should be self-apparent to someone living in this day and age.
I don't know what you think most people are like but the majority have minimal philosophical leanings and would never consider anything of the sort of what Camus wrote about. I once told my Mum about The Myth of Sisyphus and Camus' ideas and she said 'that's depressing' and never gave it a second thought. Most people are the same

>> No.9978924

>>9978900
>He died in a car accident
Because he was distracted by smoking so many cigarettes.

>> No.9978933

>>9978924
This combined with not caring for anything really does make for bad car accidents to be honest with you family.

>> No.9978961

>>9977722
Hope he's pushing the great boulder in the sky right now RIP

>> No.9978967

Remember to never waste a good train ticket, even if your friend is offering you a ride in his sports car.

>> No.9978975

>live in the moment

>don't kill yourself, you have so much potential

>optimistic nihilism

>> No.9979017

>>9978900
The Fall is an amazing book, I can't name many characters who are better explored and more representative of the crises faced by many men in the modern era.

He was a great writer, way better than Sartre, way better at identifying what other men are going through and putting it to words. Sartre's philosophy describes himself.

>> No.9979093

>>9978914
Eh, selection bias I guess. Most if not all of the people I regularly spend time with have at least a mild philosophical inclination, and they all moved past Camus quite awhile ago.

>>9979017
I thought he was intolerable. Just a loathsome monologue by a loathsome man. I don't see him as a well-developed character, mostly just a generic stand-in for modern ennui. And I'm thoroughly tired of hearing about modern ennui. The format was the most interesting thing about the book, and even that was fairly gimmicky.