Do3 - Sun 3 Nov, Camus, The Outsider

[french frank]

Sunday, 10pm-11.30pm.

Camus, The Outsider

I suppose The Outsider is the work most closely associated with Camus by most people. But given that it's to mark the centenary of AC's birth - maybe one of his plays would have been appropriate, though they are rather 'strong meat' especially, for the present time, Les Justes . But nothing if not topical ...

[Serial_Apologist]

Sunday, 10pm-11.30pm.

Camus, The Outsider

I suppose The Outsider is the work most closely associated with Camus by most people. But given that it's to mark the centenary of AC's birth - maybe one of his plays would have been appropriate, though they are rather 'strong meat' especially, for the present time, Les Justes . But nothing if not topical ...

My French A Level (plus other stuff I don't remember) - Oxford & Cambridge Board, 1964.

[french frank]

Yes, that's about the right date. And Sartre?

We also read Camus's La Peste, which has left much more of an impression on me than l'Etranger.

[Serial_Apologist]

Yes, that's about the right date. And Sartre?

We also read Camus's La Peste, which has left much more of an impression on me than l'Etranger.

Sartre was considered A Very Bad Influence when I was at school. Camus, being an anarchist, was OK, because anarchism gets us nowhere, as we all know.

[DracoM]

Was about to comment on the earlier evening Camus prog.

[french frank]

I seem to remember some (over?) neat formula about the difference between the Absurd as dealt with by Kafka and Camus. It went along the lines that for Kafka, Man is a rational being faced with a world that is absurd; in Camus, the world is rational but Man is absurd. Not my field