The ramblings of an asshole, whose every act of generosity stems from validation, turned into philosopher.
In any case, I only like confessions nowadays, and the authors of confessions write chiefly in order not to confess, saying nothing of what they know. When they pretend to be owning up, that’s the moment to beware: they’re putting make-up on the corpse. As far as his prose-fiction output goes, Cam...
Rating: 4* of fiveThe Book Report: Told as a long monologue stretched over several days, Jean-Baptiste Clamence reviews the very great highs of his life as a respected criminal attorney, and the very great lows of his life as a libertine without a discernible conscience or moral compass. He narrates...
In my opinion it is too self-concentrated. Some parts are too ridiculous. And the idea of confession was constructed in boring and artificial way.
The Fall is an appropriately titled book in which we meet the personification of what Camus called "The Absurd Man". He did not use this term to refer to someone who was merely ridiculous. The Absurd Man is one who has come to realize the absurdity of life, the resulting despair, yet chooses to li...
29/8/08I could claim I have already read Gide and have him ticked on my Nobel list. In fact, I had planned to because though he is a beautiful writer, Strait is the Gate was the most tedious book I had read. So boring I spent more time telling people it was boring than I spent reading it - it is a s...
I was in my teens when I first read this and only remember it being thematically dense despite its brevity and that I identified quite strongly with the book though I don’t think I fully appreciated the reasons why. As I re-read the Fall, I am still certain I am only understanding the book on a very...
This is a collection of articles Camus wrote between 1939-1958, concerning the siuation in French Algeria.
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