Albert Camus
06.01.2010 @ 20:50
There is nothing quite like Albert Camus' early writings
: Noces (my favourite book of Camus), L'été and L'envers
et l'endroit. His poetic essays are so harmonious in
style, so rich in imagery, so unique in their
perspective, that the reader feels himself a vital part
of the world portrayed by him.
Noces and L'été are
all about the stripping of the superfluous weight of
civilization and getting in tune with ones primal, inner
self. |
The book takes place in wild, pristine
Algeria, where the people are as bare as the climate.
Camus worships the sun, the desert, the pervading
silence. In each essay he explores a different aspect of
life, of his manhood, of his relations to nature and of
the society which surrounds him. His writings are all
stream-of-consciousness, weaving together thoughts,
feelings, experiences and impressions. Although his
early writings are coherent and true to life, they may
lack the refinement of his maturer work, such as L'étranger and La
peste, but that is precisely why I like these books
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