Twirl, Camus was an exceptional soul who lived his time intensely. He's written fiction, critiques and philosophical commentaries. He's also written memoirs and his early works are closely autobiographical. You could take your pick to start up, but I would suggest the early works < Betwixt and Between >, his biography and his critiques on contemporary authors / works, to get a glimpse of the soul as it formed and grew up to be.
Words can remain just that : words. Or, they could lead to the meaning they include, and the knowledge they are capable of imparting to us. The process is all about us, our attitude. On Jan 16, 10:51 pm, Twirlip <[email protected]> wrote: > 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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