In 80s, i taught Camus' The Plague' to a gp of Asian college students aiming to enter universities abroad. It was a prescribed text book so we had no choice but to study it. It was tough n challenging to students whose English is a 2nd language. But as a teacher it made an impact on me n my outlook in life. Camus is full of humanity.
Just reading 'La Peste' now. It is amazing the similarities between the elements of the novel and events today: initial denial by authorities, people trying to escape, obsession with numbers of victims, some businesses failing and others succeeding.
Camus was a 'writer' first, not a public intellectual: he wrote from his solitude of poverty, sea and sun in Algeria. The times demanded he speak publicly on many political issues: he wanted to retreat from this role and become a 19th century 'moraliste' writer, to be respected as writers once were and left in peace.
C’est un grand philosophe, j’ai pas eu l’occasion de lire ces livres mais un bref passage de quelques pages de un de son livre m’a donné l’impression que c’était un révolutionnaire en même temps un thinker.
You can't be an ex-Commun*st, refer to yourself as an anarcho-syndacal*st, support the French Resistance AND the emancipation of native Algerians, as a white person and not be political. Albert Camus was so political, he was too cool for the Soviets. Anti-Commun*st AND Anti-Imperial*st, Anti-Colonial*st, and Anti-Rac*st. The only thing he wasn't was perhaps a femin*st, but he had a love for women it seemed....
"I opened up myself to the gentle indifference of the universe" One of the best words put on paper.
In 80s, i taught Camus' The Plague' to a gp of Asian college students aiming to enter universities abroad. It was a prescribed text book so we had no choice but to study it. It was tough n challenging to students whose English is a 2nd language. But as a teacher it made an impact on me n my outlook in life. Camus is full of humanity.
Long live camus
Just reading 'La Peste' now. It is amazing the similarities between the elements of the novel and events today: initial denial by authorities, people trying to escape, obsession with numbers of victims, some businesses failing and others succeeding.
In the end he praises those who never gave up the fight. 'There' re more things to admire in men than to despise.' (if i can remember correctly)
Camus is the poet supreme. He brought back truth-telling to literature.
The greatest philosopher.
He died in a car accident, with a train ticket in his pocket. Absurd.
In the depths of winter I discovered a summer within......Albert Camus 🔔🦋🔔
Camus was a 'writer' first, not a public intellectual: he wrote from his solitude of poverty, sea and sun in Algeria. The times demanded he speak publicly on many political issues: he wanted to retreat from this role and become a 19th century 'moraliste' writer, to be respected as writers once were and left in peace.
C’est un grand philosophe, j’ai pas eu l’occasion de lire ces livres mais un bref passage de quelques pages de un de son livre m’a donné l’impression que c’était un révolutionnaire en même temps un thinker.
He was so much better than
Much better than Satre !
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Existentialism! I learned about it in A Stranger many years ago. Enjoy the day Today, God exists in the Now!
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He wasn't an existentialist...
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Am practiceing to be a super humen of our times Most of you are scared of death
You can't be an ex-Commun*st, refer to yourself as an anarcho-syndacal*st, support the French Resistance AND the emancipation of native Algerians, as a white person and not be political. Albert Camus was so political, he was too cool for the Soviets. Anti-Commun*st AND Anti-Imperial*st, Anti-Colonial*st, and Anti-Rac*st. The only thing he wasn't was perhaps a femin*st, but he had a love for women it seemed....
This is absurd
beyond the imagination