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"The Stranger" by Albert Camus
2008-03-22 15:51:00 I tried Jean Paul Sartre’s Nausea (read my review about this book), and I thought: “I better go for Albert Camus’ The Stranger now.” An existential novel everyone should try. The Stranger is too popular for me to go through the details, I think everyone reading books (or ones who have read like more than 50 novels in their lives so far have read The Stranger). I don’t know what went wrong between Camus and Sartre and it doesn’t really matter. Meursault’s existentialist way of thinking causes him lose every aspect of his life that matters to others. Love towards opposite sex and towards his deceased mother, humanity, the laws, marriage etc. At this point, he no longer cares what is going to happen to him. He doesn’t care whether the law will execute him or leave him the way he was, he even prefers to die and see people attend his execution day and show him their hatred. Metaphorically, Algeria can be another planet and Camus is the stranger here. People are all strang...
By: This Winki's
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2008-03-18 07:12:00 Albert Camus, a?da? d?n ve yaz?n dnyas?ndaki sayg?n yerini yaln?zca oyunlar?yla da, yaln?zca Sisifos ve Ba?kald?ran ?nsan’ la da al?rd? belki. Ama Camus’y Camus yapan ncelikle anlat? yap?lar?d?r, Yabanc? (1942), Veba(1947) ve D??’se (1956) bu yap?tlar aras?nda byk doruktur. Ancak, kimi yaz?nseverler bu ba?yap?t aras?nda daha ok D??’ ye?lerler. Bu kitap, ...
Sama ve ?ntihar
2008-01-26 03:35:00 Yaln?zca gerekten ciddi bir tek sorun var: ?ntihar. Ya?am?n ya?anmaya de?ip de?medi?ini d?nmek, felsefenin temel sorusunu yan?tlamakt?r. Dnyan?n boyutlu olmas?, zihnin dokuz ya da on iki kategorisi olmas? gibi sorunlar sonra gelir. Bunlar?n hi nemi yok. Yan?tlamak gerek nce. Nietzsche’nin de syledi?i gibi, bir filozof sayg?de?er olabilmek iin zyle sz bir olmak zorundaysa, bu ...
8th Motorshow Cebu International: Day 1
2007-10-17 04:17:00 I have been stationed in the media center and lounge of the 8th Motorshow Cebu International in the Cebu International Convention Center?s (CICC) room 101 since yesterday. I will be here daily until the end of the event on Sunday, probably with nothing much to do since most reporters would expectedly be here during the opening ...
By: (Mis)readings
Daily Quote - July 18th - Albert Camus
2007-07-18 09:47:00 You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. Albert Camus We do ?Quote of the Day? seven days a week 365 days a year. However, Create Business Growth is primarily a Monday through Friday blog and our regular ...
'The Outsider' by Albert Camus
2007-07-04 10:56:00 The hero of the novel 'The Outsider', Meursault is a typical example of an absurd character. His story parallels the story of Sisyphus - stripped of all illusions, extracts a grim acceptance of life from death and defeat, he deems life worth living after all he'd had. This novel without hope, even against hope, ends on a note of hope and promise.When Meursault is condemned to death, he considers the question of beginning life afresh (here Camus is illustrating the absurdity through the myth of Sisyphus).In a letter Camus wrote: "A man's greatness lies more in what he keeps to himself than in what he says." Meursault is an example of this great silence. During the trial one of the witnesses says about him: "Meursault didn't waste words."Camus writes about Meursault's feelings at the end of the novel:"I realized that I'd been happy, and that I was still happy. For the final consummation and for me to feel less lonely, my last wish was that there should be a crowd of spectators ...
By: Literary Jewels
'The Outsider' by Albert Camus
2007-07-04 10:56:00 The hero of the novel 'The Outsider', Meursault is a typical example of an absurd character. His story parallels the story of Sisyphus - stripped of all illusions, extracts a grim acceptance of life from death and defeat, he deems life worth living after all he'd had. This novel without hope, even against hope, ends on a note of hope and promise.When Meursault is condemned to death, he considers the question of beginning life afresh (here Camus is illustrating the absurdity through the myth of Sisyphus).In a letter Camus wrote: "A man's greatness lies more in what he keeps to himself than in what he says." Meursault is an example of this great silence. During the trial one of the witnesses says about him: "Meursault didn't waste words."Camus writes about Meursault's feelings at the end of the novel:"I realized that I'd been happy, and that I was still happy. For the final consummation and for me to feel less lonely, my last wish was that there should be a crowd of spectators ...
By: Literary Jewels
The 'Absurd'
2007-07-03 14:34:00 The absurd is not, says Sartre, "a mere idea; it is revealed to us in a doleful illumination - getting up, tram, four hours of work, meal, sleep; Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, in the same routine." This pattern is horrifyingly similar to the pattern of Sisyphus.The essay 'Le Mythe de Sisyphe' ('The Myth of Sisyphus'), 1942, illustrates Camus' concept of the absurd and accepting it with "the total absence of hope, which has nothing to do with despair, a continual refusal, which must not be confused with renouncement - and a conscious dissatisfaction".According to existentialist philosophers such as Camus and Sartre, "absurdity" is the necessary result of our attempts to live a life of meaning and purpose in an indifferent, uncaring universe. Another quality of the absurd man is that he will never be disappointed with life. He will want to live even if he visualizes a life without hope, without future. (Albert Camus won the Nobel Prize for Literature in ...
By: Literary Jewels
AUTOR: Albert Camus
2007-03-16 00:45:00 Datos• Nombre: Albert Camus [albɛʁ kamu].• Trabajos: Escritor, Filósofo.• Estilos: Existencialismo, absurdismo."Me rebelo, luego somos".-A. Camus en El hombre rebeldeBiografía• Nace: 7 Noviembre 1913, Mondovi (Argelia) (Ciudad hoy conocida como Deraan).• Muere: 4 Enero 1960, Villeblevin (Francia).Su padre era un viticultor argelino, resultó muerto en la batalla de Marne (Primera Guerra Mundial) cuando Albert Camus contaba con un año de edad tan solo. Entonces su familia se mudó a Argel, la capital, donde cursó sus estudios. Pronto empezó a escribir, y sus primeros textos fueron publicados en la revista Sud en 1932. Tubo que dejar sus estudios ya que contrajo tuberculosis, pero se sacó un título superior en letras, en la sección de filosofía.Militó en el partido comunista, aunque solo lo hizo por la situación política en España, próxima a la guerra civil, más que por apoyar la doctrina marxista en si, y pronto lo dejó. Fundó el teatro del trabajo en 193...
By: El ltimo libro
Albert Camus
2007-03-11 01:14:00 Bodas . Caligula . Cartas a un amigo alemán . El extranjero . El primer hombre . La caida . La peste . Los justos .
By: El ltimo libro
February 10, 2007 (William Blake, William Shakesphere, Albert Camus, Mikhai
2007-02-11 10:08:03 High Contrast--Literature of the Digital Evolution February 10, 2007 Hello and Welcome! Today I wanted to display two of my all-time favorite classical poems, and two essays by two of the most profou...
February 10, 2007 (William Blake, William Shakesphere, Albert Camus, Mikhai
2007-02-10 18:08:00 High Contrast--Literature of the Digital Evolution February 10, 2007 Hello and Welcome! Today I wanted to display two of my all-time favorite classical poems, and two essays by two of the most profou...
Albert Camus - L'Étranger (The Outsider / The Stranger) 1942
2007-01-03 18:02:00 Audio Book (English)
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