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11888228 No.11888228 [Reply] [Original]

what are your thoughts on camus books?
I want to read the stranger and I have a few of his other books too, will i sound like a fedora master if i talk about his books?

>> No.11888238

>>11888228
Just read The Stranger faggot it takes like a few hours

>> No.11888254

>>11888238
i read it before in high school but i forgot it and i am going to reread it

>> No.11888270

>>11888254
Make sure to come back and make a thread about it we could use more lit roundtables

>> No.11888274

we exist in a society

>> No.11888276

camus was a pseud and isn't worth reading

>> No.11888445

>>11888276
>will i sound like a fedora master if i talk about his books?
a fedora master will sound like a fedora master no matter what he talks about, sorry to break it to you, fedora master

>> No.11888469

No, he was an intelligent man who wrote some good shit. His philosophy is applicable to your own life whether you want it to be or not - none of this ontological or metaphysical bullshit. Stop caring about how you sound to other people on the internet and just read what you want to read.

>> No.11889068

Even if you disagree with his philosophy, his novels are great reads. The Plague delivers a truly oppressing atmosphere as the story unravels, and The Stranger has one of my favorite endings.

>> No.11889084

>just imagine Sisyphus is happy, bro
>I know I can
>I, who have never known anything but a life of easy sex and am currently one of the world's most famous writers
>It's easy, man
>you just gotta imagine that a guy condemned to extreme manual labor (something I've never done) for eternity, who will know neither rest nor female companionship for the rest of his endless days (hey, busty whore #345, would you mind getting me my slippers and gin?), and who each day sees all of this body and soul breaking work come to nothing (what, my publisher just said he'd publish the toilet paper that I wiped my ass with this morning? Woah, I really am a genius!) is actually happy!
>I mean, c'mon brah, it's simple, you just gotta understand the Absurd™
The car crashed about forty years too late

>> No.11889130

I unironically liked the first man

>> No.11889196

>>11889084
Someone doesn't embrace the absurd

>> No.11889207
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11889207

He lived in a society

>> No.11889212

>>11889084
are you the same guy who made the anti camus thread a while back
pretty sure you are

>> No.11889224

>>11889084
I get the same bad taste from Marcus Aurelius
Meditations has some good insight, but the guy was an emperor who enjoyed the finest imported opium and whores while he scribbled about asceticism and disconnection. It feels hollow coming from him, even if it was never meant to be published.
At least Epictetus had some slavery under his belt to back it up.

>> No.11889244

>"lol American writers totally suck, amirite?"
>"omg I love Melville and Faulkner."

Camus' mental retardation really gets under my skin.