On Jan 16, 5:09 pm, Vamadevananda <[email protected]> wrote:

> If you would allow, I would suggest you read all the works of Albert Camus.

I did read /The Outsider/ (in translation), and it didn't do anything
for me.  This was a long time ago, and it's possible that a second
reading now would affect me more. However, a second reading in later
life of Sartre's /Nausea/ had no more effect on me than the first
reading in my teenage years. This, in conjunction with my general
sense of something profoundly lacking in atheistic existentialism
(which is not at all to say that there is not also something
profoundly present and important in it) - and my experience in real
life of shockingly abusive attitudes on the part of more than one
individual under the influence of that bleak philosophy - leads me to
doubt that I would gain anything by re-reading it now.  In spite of
this, do you think I should re-read it?  Alternatively, should I read
something else of his, such as /The Plague/ (which I have never read,
thinking it would be too depressing)?
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