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A short intro on Camus: For the uninitiated Camus
is a French literateur and chiefly writes about existentialist philosophy. His novel the Fall is one of the greatest existentialist piece of semi-classical piece ever written. Then there is myth of sisyphus, which is a philosophical essay on suicide and the motivation for man when all morals breakdown and he/she is faced with absurdity. The other works by him include, The Stranger, The Plague, A Happy Death and Caligula & 3 plays.

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• From: Gokul (@ 192.190.51.13) on: Wed Jun 14 14:33:39 EDT 2000
  
  Saranath: Thanks for providing detailed info
  on kafka. Just to Maintain the focus of this thread, I will create a separate thread on Kafka, can you post your responses there? Thanks.
  
  
• From: Lily B (@ spider-wk064.proxy.aol.com) on: Tue Aug 1 00:44:01 EDT 2000
  
  I know of Camus in a "general" sense, but the finer points of existential philosophy (i.e. reading it as is) simply bores me. That is why I read Dostoevskii; he breathes life and understanding into the dry physics of the philosopher.......
  
  That is why I read Camus as a novelist, prose writer, more than his actual documents.
  
  With Kafka it is the same.
  
  Dostoevskii seemed to hit it all....... including that Man/Superman fellow.
  
  If someone knows of a way to read these brilliant fellows without (too much) pain, please let me know.
  
  
• From: "ME" (@ spider-tn083.proxy.aol.com) on: Thu Aug 10 18:22:29 EDT 2000
  
  Hey Swami...
  
  Here is my response.. will read the said stuff and post a decent response :)
  
  
• From: cfraustolopez (@ ) on: Thu Jan 10 12:33:22
  
  what does anyone think are the ingluences albert camus had on the world
  
  
• From: Expat (@ mail.waldorf.edu) on: Thu Jan 10 22:09:03
  
  Was Camus also a nihilist?
  
  
• From: DIVAKARAN (@ 212.72.8.129) on: Wed Jan 16 10:09:52
  
  I liked Camus while as a student in the turbulent 1970s.A few months ago I again read some of his works.I am still overwhelmed by his writings.I do not think that every one must like Camus.Like other things your medicine could be my poison in reading also.Just finished reading Vikram Seth's "A Suiltable Boy" after a friend talked higly of the novel.I found it not at all to my liking.
  
  
• From: Me (@ acmewest.med.ge.com) on: Fri Sep 27 05:56:57
  
  "Swami" and "Me" were eventually married. Talk about absurdity!!
  
  
• From: Thalia (@ hardy.cyberia.net.lb) on: Fri Jul 23 10:27:10
  
  Camus is a writer, thinker, philosopher whose ideas seem to constantly overcome the flight of time. A must read to everyone who "thinks about life".
  
  

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