Questions tagged [albert-camus]
Questions about the works of the Algerian-born French philosopher and author Albert Camus (1913 – 1960) or his life as a writer. He is best known for his works 'The Stranger', 'The Rebel' and others. Use this tag with the tag [french-literature.
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Why does Mersault say “Hello image!” to his girlfriend?
I have read the novel A Happy Death by Albert Camus. In this novel Mersault (the absurd hero) at one point says to his girlfriend, "Hello, image!". I am wondering why he calls his girlfriend "image". ...
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What does Camus mean by this sentence?
I read 'A happy death' by 'Albert Camus' . In this book , Mersault once said:
Believe me, there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory . . . Everything is
forgotten, ...
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What does Camus mean by “the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way”?
Here is a set of lines from the book A Happy Death by Albert Camus:
In the past, whenever Mersault had spent any time with one woman, he made the first gestures of commitment, he was conscious of ...
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Allusion by Albert Camus to another author
In Camus's essay The Sea Close By there's a sentence:
This life rebellious to forgetfulness, rebellious to memory, of which Stevenson speaks.
(page 5 of Penguin Classics 2013).
Can anyone tell ...
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On a quote of Hegel in L'été (Summer) of Camus
This is my first question on this website, so I am not completely sure that this is the most adequate one (I could have also tried Philosophy stack exchange).
In the chapter "L'exil d'Hélène" of L'...
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Why is the tense wrong in the beginning of The Stranger?
The first lines of Albert Camus' The Stranger go something like this:
Mother died today. Or, maybe, yesterday
It's told in the present tense, as in, when Meursault is recounting the event it had ...
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Why is Camus asserting that “Marx scientific Messianism” is Bourgeois?
In The Rebel, Camus asserts that
Progress, the future of science, the cult of technology and of production, are bourgeois myths, ...
Why is Camus defining these themes as "bourgeois myths"?
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Why does Meursault kill “the Arab” in The Stranger?
In Albert Camus' book The Stranger, Meursault kills a character known as "the Arab" for no real reason at all. Meursault even acknowledges that he doesn't have to kill "the Arab"
It struck me that ...
