Theatre, Classic Literature, Philosophy, Politics, Human Rights.
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What then is our absurd situation? Hugo, perhaps, answers it best in Les Miserables as Jean Valjean wrestles with his conscience. He writes:
Alas! In this unrelenting pugilism between our selfishness and our duty, when we recoil this way step by step before our immutable ideal, bewildered, enraged, exasperated at yielding, disputing the ground, hoping for possible flight, seeking some outlet, how abrupt and ominous is the resistance of the wall behind us!
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Which Existentialist Philosopher Are You?
You scored as Albert Camus
You are Albert Camus, so you are one sweet absurdist. He built largely upon the framework of existentialists before him, but introduced the concept that life is absurd, but that we should continue living anyway. You have strong liberal leanings, although you annoy the Communists. You are susceptible to driving fast, and possibly crashing into a tree.
Albert Camus
100%
Jean-Paul Sartre
71%
Martin Heidegger
36%
Not An Existentialist
29%
Friedrich Nietzsche
25%
Soren Kierkegaard
14%
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Books:
A Selection of Works in English [with publishing dates]
The Stranger (The Outsider) [1946]
Caligula and Cross Purpose [1947]
The Plague [1948]
The Rebel [1953]
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays [1955]
The Fall [1957]
Caligula and Three Other Plays [1958]
Exile and the Kingdom [1958]
Speech of Acceptance upon the Award of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Delivered in Stockholm on the Tenth of December, 1957 [1958]
The Possessed: a Play in Three parts (adapted from Dostoevsky) [1960]
Caligula : a Drama in Two Acts [1961]
Resistance, Rebellion and Death [1961]
Notebooks. – Vol. 1: 1935-1942 [1963]
Notebooks. – Vol. 2: 1942-1951 [1965]
Lyrical and Critical Essays [1968]
A Happy Death [1972]
Youthful Writings [1976]
American Journals [1987]
The First Man [1995]
Summer [1995]
Oeuvres et dates de publication
L'envers et l'endroit [1937]
Caligula [1938]
Noces [1939]
L'étranger [1942]
Le mythe de Sisyphe [1942]
Le malentendu [1944]
Lettres à un ami allemand [1945]
La peste [1947]
L'état de siège [1948]
Actuelles : chroniques 1944-1948 [1950]
Les justes : pièces en cinq actes [1950]
L'homme révolté [1951]
Actuelles II : Chroniques 1948-1953 [1953]
L'été [1954]
La chute [1956]
L'exil et le royaume [1957]
Actuelles III : Chronique algérienne 1939-1958 [1958]
Discours de Suède [1958]
Les possédés : pièce en trois parties adaptée du roman de Dostoïevski [1959]
Carnets, mai 1935 - février 1942 [1962]
Carnets, janvier 1942 - mars 1951 [1964]
Essais [1965]
La mort heureuse [1971]
Écrits de jeunesse // Viallaneix, Paul, Le premier Camus suivi de Écrits de jeunesse d'Albert Camus [1973]
Journaux de voyage [1978]
Le Premier homme [1994]
Heroes:
You. The living.
Vous. Ceux qui vivent.
