but philosophers who write fiction can fuck off. allegories are for the most part shit.
2-0 Outsider
or The Stranger as my version is.
Scooby Doo can do do
but Jimmy Carter is smarter
Well,
i read many many years ago, when i was an angry young man. Now that im an angry old man, im not quite sure what i'd make of it now. I remember it being hard work, but very worthwhile.
Colin Wilson's fiction is often brilliant!
Agree?
I've only half read the outsider in french
Couldn't understand it that much as my french is terrible. Though in september i'm starting my degree in french+philosophy so I'm sure I will encounter them at some point. It's all very exciting.
I'll get back to you in a few years.
i'm kind of reading nausea now
however i've got distracted by paul hegarty's masterful 'noise/music: a history.' which is amazing to say the least.
Why did you write that?
^L'enfer, c'est Traynor.
Try 'Mandarins' instead
^
XD
Sarcasm:
The lowest form of wit?
Outsider over Nausea
but Age of Reason over Outsider. But The Fall over Age of Reason. So Camus wins.
I've only read Nausea
The Rebel = Nausea
I dunno, I mean Camus is hotter but Sartre has a hotter name. I'm trying to read Being and Nothingness and failing. Existentialism and Humanism is quite a snazzy speech though int it.
I dunno, I like them both.
I think my minor language will be French at UCL, even if it means having to spend my third year in Belgium.
I'm going to go for Huysmans
And on that note
SPIN OFF THREAD
I've never read any Satre
but I like the Camus I've read.
The Plague beats all Satre
as does L' Etranger. Actually Myth of Sisyphus beats Satre too. So Basically Camus FTW.
I have a Philosophy / Literature joint degree and thus on this topic MY WORD IS LAW.
i've only read
existentialism and humanism and the age of reason by sartre. i prefer camus.
The Myth of Sisyphus defeated me.
^ name for my new hardcore band
Ta
Camus
for sure. He's more hopeful, varied, less wallowing and pretentious.
camus
because he was a goalkeeper. we're a special breed that must stick together.
Nausea is gash
The main character's essentially a pretty vile wasteman who is used by Sartre as a conduit to justify his own bourgeois lifestyle. The Autodidact for me is the hero, and then Sartre outs him as a paedophile at the end. Great.
The Outsider meanwhile is a masterpiece.
I felt a similar
affection for the Autodidact, Im quite glad that someone has said that.
Id go for the Outsider, but there are certain images in Nausea that will stay with me, despite it not being that amazing. However, its certainly better than The Plague.
not read nausea.
is it good?
CAMUS
always.
always camus
but philosophers who write fiction can fuck off. allegories are for the most part shit.
2-0 Outsider
or The Stranger as my version is.
Scooby Doo can do do
but Jimmy Carter is smarter
Well,
i read many many years ago, when i was an angry young man. Now that im an angry old man, im not quite sure what i'd make of it now. I remember it being hard work, but very worthwhile.
Colin Wilson's fiction is often brilliant!
Agree?
I've only half read the outsider in french
Couldn't understand it that much as my french is terrible. Though in september i'm starting my degree in french+philosophy so I'm sure I will encounter them at some point. It's all very exciting.
I'll get back to you in a few years.
i'm kind of reading nausea now
however i've got distracted by paul hegarty's masterful 'noise/music: a history.' which is amazing to say the least.
Why did you write that?
^L'enfer, c'est Traynor.
Try 'Mandarins' instead
^
XD
Sarcasm:
The lowest form of wit?
Outsider over Nausea
but Age of Reason over Outsider. But The Fall over Age of Reason. So Camus wins.
I've only read Nausea
The Rebel = Nausea
I dunno, I mean Camus is hotter but Sartre has a hotter name. I'm trying to read Being and Nothingness and failing. Existentialism and Humanism is quite a snazzy speech though int it.
I dunno, I like them both.
I think my minor language will be French at UCL, even if it means having to spend my third year in Belgium.
I'm going to go for Huysmans
And on that note
SPIN OFF THREAD
I've never read any Satre
but I like the Camus I've read.
The Plague beats all Satre
as does L' Etranger. Actually Myth of Sisyphus beats Satre too. So Basically Camus FTW.
I have a Philosophy / Literature joint degree and thus on this topic MY WORD IS LAW.
i've only read
existentialism and humanism and the age of reason by sartre. i prefer camus.
The Myth of Sisyphus defeated me.
^ name for my new hardcore band
Ta
Camus
for sure. He's more hopeful, varied, less wallowing and pretentious.
camus
because he was a goalkeeper. we're a special breed that must stick together.
Nausea is gash
The main character's essentially a pretty vile wasteman who is used by Sartre as a conduit to justify his own bourgeois lifestyle. The Autodidact for me is the hero, and then Sartre outs him as a paedophile at the end. Great.
The Outsider meanwhile is a masterpiece.
I felt a similar
affection for the Autodidact, Im quite glad that someone has said that.
Id go for the Outsider, but there are certain images in Nausea that will stay with me, despite it not being that amazing. However, its certainly better than The Plague.
This is wrong
and Zarathustra single-handedly proves it
I did French and Philosophy!
The outsider is great.