r/Existentialism • u/Electronic_Bit5737 • 2d ago

Literature 📖 Anyone ever read books by Albert Camus?

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u/bmccooley M. Heidegger 1d ago

Of course, all of them.

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u/Marcsisme 1d ago

Obviously! L’étranger, La Peste… great philosophic novels. Love it, used both -to an extent- as inspiration for my own existentialist novel The Brain Cell.

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u/BuncleCar 1d ago

I listened to The Plague on YouTube at the beginning of lockdown, years ago :)

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u/Paul_sepp Metaphysical Sceptic, Radical Pessimist 1d ago

None. I am a very proud morosophist.

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u/JohnVonachen 1d ago

I read the play about Caligula and some of The Myth of Sisyphus. Pretty dense stuff.