Albert Camus, The stranger

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• thorin · Feb 20, 2022 · Recommends

  Albert Camus, the stranger Earnest hemmingway, the old man and the sea Have read many times, I like short books!

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• alexophile · Nov 18, 2010 · Recommends

  …free to believe what you want, and it's neither my business nor my concern whether or not you pass on your particular genes, I just can't resist this discussion. Related reading if you're interested: Albert Camus (The Stranger, The Myth of Sisyphus), Sartre (Nausea, Being and Nothingness)

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• tw1010 · Dec 7, 2017 · Recommends

  …less conventional advice that has sometimes worked for me is to totally embrace the feeling of being somber, and binge on some of the classic sort of miserable apathetic existentialist books. Things like Albert Camus' The Stranger, Sartre's Nausia, Beckett's Waiting for Godot, and Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground. Sometimes after I have read those works, after I have stopped trying to ignore the feeling and just went all in…

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• jimmyed · Mar 11, 2022 · Mentions

  > There were short, punchy openers like: Mother died today –Albert Camus, The Stranger Well, that's only half the line. The real punch is the next part: > Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don't know

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