tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2510721759458783546.post8237748328234730886..comments2023-11-21T18:34:53.728+00:00Comments on In Abstentia Out: Camus' Outsider & Existentialism- A Deep UnderstandingAndrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11708539533684206357noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2510721759458783546.post-37133734674920000482007-07-08T01:37:00.000+01:002007-07-08T01:37:00.000+01:00i acknowledge Sartre's intelligence but loathe eve...i acknowledge Sartre's intelligence but loathe everything i've read of his. His novels leave me with a nausea for flesh.<BR/><BR/>Camus for all his bleak viewpoint, had an old-school heroism, and an ardent love of sex, sunshine, simple happiness.<BR/><BR/>The Fall can be read as a critique of how hypocritical Sartre-esque fashionable left-wingers are. The protagonist is a phoney who convinced even himself of his left-wing credentials; then one day he fell, and becomes this strange embittered figure.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2510721759458783546.post-8043387601955947112007-07-08T01:20:00.000+01:002007-07-08T01:20:00.000+01:00Haven't read The Fall, Elberry, though I think I d...Haven't read The Fall, Elberry, though I think I do have it around somewhere. And I'd agree about Camus' genuineness- a person I could conceivably have seen dipping his toes in the kind of waters someone like Huxley did, due to his seeming to be of an open-ended intelligence instead of someone of fixed intellectual positions.Andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11708539533684206357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2510721759458783546.post-37280020621569239082007-07-07T21:26:00.000+01:002007-07-07T21:26:00.000+01:00I'd have to admit to not being particularly affect...I'd have to admit to not being particularly affected by The Outsider, Neil, but was farmore impressed with The Plague, which seemed a much deeper and more mature work. Camus seems a figure much worthier of serious attention than Sartre for whom I admit to having less than no regard; Camus being a human first as opposed to a kind of ideology spouting mouthpiece.Andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11708539533684206357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2510721759458783546.post-13888386453514648582007-07-07T21:15:00.000+01:002007-07-07T21:15:00.000+01:00my fave Camus is The Fall. i managed to read the o...my fave Camus is The Fall. i managed to read the original La Chute over a summer, as it's so simply written.<BR/><BR/>After that, Sisyphus...i love that Camus (in contrast to a lot of philosophers) seems to mean absolutely everything he writes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2510721759458783546.post-89482804639136327102007-07-07T21:05:00.000+01:002007-07-07T21:05:00.000+01:00Read it and wept. 2 out of 12? How absurd. If I ha...Read it and wept. 2 out of 12? How absurd. If I hadn't read it already a couple of times, I wouldn't have to after reading your review. But seriously, it is a great book and Camus, to me, the most articulate and authentic voice of existentialism.Neil Forsythhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00240393170374161007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2510721759458783546.post-62993606535822447942007-07-07T19:58:00.000+01:002007-07-07T19:58:00.000+01:00That is both extremely exhilirating and profoundly...That is both extremely exhilirating and profoundly depressing, Elberry. Which of course means that it is deeply moving.Andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11708539533684206357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2510721759458783546.post-63516010100875213632007-07-07T19:16:00.000+01:002007-07-07T19:16:00.000+01:00indeed, the masses congregate at Amazon and expres...indeed, the masses congregate at Amazon and express their disapproval of us beyond-bloggers by clicking 'no'. But they are a thing that will be surpassed and in the end all us beyond-bloggers will fight until one only is left alive, covered in gore & filth.<BR/><BR/>Because there can be only one. However, the winner will eventually get quite bored with being the last living being, and will commit suicide.<BR/><BR/>So in the end there will be no one. It's quite sad.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com