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| | 1. |  | The Stranger
from Vintage
Price: $8.76
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Oh, what does it matter if I write a review about this book or if I don't write a review about this book? Nothing will change. It won't have any affect on anything. In 100 years, I'll be dead, and what difference would it have made if I gave a writeup, or I didn't?
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| | 2. |  | The Plague
from Vintage
Price: $10.36
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The development of the characters during the months of plague is rich and well-explored. The contrasting viewpoints of each character drive home Camus' ideas. I can't recommend it more
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| | 3. |  | The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
from Vintage
Price: $10.36
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I do not have any special quarrel with Camus' thesis, which is neither very complex nor very controversial. I am going to summarize it in plain English. Doing so, showing that it can be done, will bear out my criticism of Camus' writing.
Man thirsts for a holistic meaning from life that life... more info
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| | 4. |  | The Fall
from Vintage
Price: $9.56
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Bleak but beautiful, The Fall is one of those books that reveals humans for what they are. The lawyer protagonist has worked all his life for justice, but to what end? He would like to believe that he has a selfless interest in downtrodden people and lofty ideals, but as the book progresses he is... more info
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| | 5. |  | L'Etranger (Collection Folio, 2)
from Editions Gallimard
Price: $9.95
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The language in this short novel is simple and engaging, and probably the best (if not only) reason to read this book, particularly for students of french such as myself.
Unfortunately the story is very contrived and unconvincing, despite Camus' apparent attempts to ground it in a believable,... more info
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| | 6. |  | Existentialism Is a Humanism
from Yale University Press
Price: $9.95
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Although this is not exactly an introduction to the theory of Existentialism, it is certainly a much more accessible account of it than Sartre's "Being and Nothingness." Sartre addresses the numerous detractors of Existentialism who posit that the theory is essentially pessimistic and... more info
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| | 7. |  | The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
from Vintage
Price: $10.36
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I have never read a book by Camus I didn't like, and this series of essays on man's inclination if not inborne need to rebel is one more example how how Camus has cemented himself as one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century.
I only wish I had read this book when I was younger, I... more info
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| | 9. |  | Notebooks 1951-1959
from Ivan R. Dee, Publisher
Price: $18.15
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College-level collections strong on Camus will find this a special acquisition presenting the notebooks withheld in France for some 29 years after his death, appearing for the first time in English. The first two volumes of his notebooks began simply but this concluding volume was written over the... more info
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| | 10. |  | L Etranger
from Gallimard
Price: $10.17
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This book is incredibly easy to read in French. It was the first book I ever attempted to read in French, the language is simple, but the ideas bigger. I think that it illustrates how one might live as un être en soi, instead of an être pour soi, as we ought to be. Meursault's existance... more info
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