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woeful painter
03-14-2006, 08:28 AM
can you guys include Albert Camus' works here? i find them very intriguing. much appreciated! thanks! :)
Jay
03-14-2006, 09:30 AM
I think his work is still copyrighted and will be for a few decades still.
woeful painter
03-14-2006, 10:12 AM
oh, ok. i'll just have to buy the books then. thanks!
Jay
03-14-2006, 11:06 AM
Or you could try your library :)
woeful painter
03-14-2006, 11:12 AM
yeah, will do. thanks ma'am! :)
Jay
03-14-2006, 11:13 AM
No problem at all :)
jon1jt
03-15-2006, 08:08 PM
I'd read them in this order:

The Stranger
The Fall
The Plague

The rest of them I wouldn't recommend. I'd also recommend John Paul Sartre's No Exit, Nausea, and The Age of Reason.

I'd skip all of the above and read Dostoevsky's Notes from the Underground and Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
nomadic myth
03-21-2006, 08:40 PM
I'd read them in this order:

The Stranger
The Fall
The Plague

The rest of them I wouldn't recommend.

The Exile and the Kingdom short stories were pretty good.
jon1jt
03-22-2006, 02:42 AM
The Exile and the Kingdom short stories were pretty good.

I'll check it out, thanks Nomad. I'm actually interested in reading his book, the manuscript of which he was carrying the day he was killed and published many years later by his daughter. Camus is an interesting guy politically and as a writer and I'm looking forward to reading the rest of his work someday. Thanks again!
Logos
03-22-2006, 09:05 AM
I really enjoyed First Man (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679768165/102-1981991-0697717?v=glance&n=283155), the semi-autobiographical novel he was working on when he died. Actually I wish I'd read it before I'd delved into his other works. It illuminates his life in Algeria and the beginnings of his insights into moral quandry and aestheticism.