The reputation of
Albert Camus has never been higher. He was the novelist
who captured the post-war sense of European civilisation in tatters.
In his 1957 Nobel speech he said: "For
more than twenty years of an insane history, hopelessly lost like all
the men of my generation in the convulsions of time, I have been
supported by one thing: by the hidden feeling that to write today was
an honour."
Zakia
reads about the trial
Camus'
thought evolved with his writings and experience. When this novel is
read with his later philosophical essay The Myth of Sisyphus,
we see a vision emerging of how Camus surmounted the nihilism
pervasive in much of European thought at the time – which gave rise to
various streams of existentialism. But Camus' stance is unique as man
of action, writer engagé,
and novelist.
Thommo
left early to test drive his Tata Nano
Is
Meursault a 'queer fellow' as his girl-friend Marie suggests, or is he
the normal male who enjoys the simple pleasures of life, and
seeks to avoid the kind of involvement with others that would abridge his
own freedom? The irony is he gets caught up in a fracas, though he had no
dog in the fight (as Texans say); and ends by losing his freedom totally!
Talitha,
Priya, and KumKum at the Camus reading
Be surprised by who else read this novel lately:
Here are the readers at the end:
Talitha,
Zakia, Priya, KumKum, Bobby, & Joe
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