L
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 2:39 pm
Hi everybody,
May i suggest this book ?
I just finished reading this novel by Albert Camus. He said he wrote it to distract the reader but it also has some philosophical meaning.
Meursault, the main character of this novel, does not believe in God, he is an atheist, like many people today. He thinks life is absurd, he seems to be indifferent to a lot of things.
He would marry his lover if that is what she wants. He is not looking for love.
He kills an arab without any real motive, just because of the heat on that beach that day.
He is indifferent to a promotion at work when his boss offers him a job in Paris.
He does not cry at his mother's funeral.
When he knows his faith (death by guillotine), he wants a new life where he can remember this life.
It is a powerful novel which belongs to the existentialism movement. But i think Camus said it has nothing to do with the existentialism movement but with the absurd.
Has anyone read it ? If yes, what do you think of it ?
May i suggest this book ?
I just finished reading this novel by Albert Camus. He said he wrote it to distract the reader but it also has some philosophical meaning.
Meursault, the main character of this novel, does not believe in God, he is an atheist, like many people today. He thinks life is absurd, he seems to be indifferent to a lot of things.
He would marry his lover if that is what she wants. He is not looking for love.
He kills an arab without any real motive, just because of the heat on that beach that day.
He is indifferent to a promotion at work when his boss offers him a job in Paris.
He does not cry at his mother's funeral.
When he knows his faith (death by guillotine), he wants a new life where he can remember this life.
It is a powerful novel which belongs to the existentialism movement. But i think Camus said it has nothing to do with the existentialism movement but with the absurd.
Has anyone read it ? If yes, what do you think of it ?