I only read The Plague, which from memory is a critique more of society. This sounds very much more looking inward. Look forward to reading it (in small doses?)
Great pick on Camus. The way Clamence unravels his entire moral identity over that one momnet of inaction is brutal. I've always thought the drowning woman is less about the actual event and more about how we rationlize away our failures as inevitable, then build whole philosophies around it.
I only read The Plague, which from memory is a critique more of society. This sounds very much more looking inward. Look forward to reading it (in small doses?)
Some of the starkest confessions are delivered in a bar
Nice review.
I need to dive deeper into Camu. I have the plague on my shelf (the book not the disease).
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I read this several years ago. It's quite a confession. You can't go wrong with Camus.
Great pick on Camus. The way Clamence unravels his entire moral identity over that one momnet of inaction is brutal. I've always thought the drowning woman is less about the actual event and more about how we rationlize away our failures as inevitable, then build whole philosophies around it.