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Albert Camus
1,081 books38.2k followersWorks, such as the novels
The Stranger
(1942) and
The Plague
(1947), of Algerian-born French writer and philosopher Albert Camus concern the absurdity of the human condition; he won the Nobel Prize of 1957 for literature.
Origin and his experiences of this representative of non-metropolitan literature in the 1930s dominated influences in his thought and work.
He also adapted plays of Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Lope de Vega, Dino Buzzati, and Requiem for a Nun of William Faulkner. One may trace his enjoyment of the theater back to his membership in l'Equipe, an Algerian group, whose "collective creation" Révolte dans les Asturies (1934) was banned for political reasons.
Of semi-proletarian parents, early attached to intellectual circles of strongly revolutionary tendencies, with a deep interest, he came at the age of 25 years in 1938; only chance prevented him from pursuing a university career in that field. The man and the times met: Camus joined the resistance movement during the occupation and after the liberation served as a columnist for the newspaper Combat.
The essay Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus), 1942, expounds notion of acceptance of the absurd of Camus with "the total absence of hope, which has nothing to do with despair, a continual refusal, which must not be confused with renouncement - and a conscious dissatisfaction."
Meursault, central character of L'Étranger (The Stranger), 1942, illustrates much of this essay: man as the nauseated victim of the absurd orthodoxy of habit, later - when the young killer faces execution - tempted by despair, hope, and salvation.
Besides his fiction and essays, Camus very actively produced plays in the theater (e.g., Caligula, 1944).
The time demanded his response, chiefly in his activities, but in 1947, Camus retired from political journalism.
Doctor Rieux of La Peste (The Plague), 1947, who tirelessly attends the plague-stricken citizens of Oran, enacts the revolt against a world of the absurd and of injustice, and confirms words: "We refuse to despair of mankind. Without having the unreasonable ambition to save men, we still want to serve them."
People also well know La Chute (The Fall), work of Camus in 1956.
Camus authored L'Exil et le royaume (Exile and the Kingdom) in 1957. His austere search for moral order found its aesthetic correlative in the classicism of his art. He styled of great purity, intense concentration, and rationality.
Camus died at the age of 46 years in a car accident near Sens in le Grand Fossard in the small town of Villeblevin.
Chinese 阿尔贝·加缪
Origin and his experiences of this representative of non-metropolitan literature in the 1930s dominated influences in his thought and work.
He also adapted plays of Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Lope de Vega, Dino Buzzati, and Requiem for a Nun of William Faulkner. One may trace his enjoyment of the theater back to his membership in l'Equipe, an Algerian group, whose "collective creation" Révolte dans les Asturies (1934) was banned for political reasons.
Of semi-proletarian parents, early attached to intellectual circles of strongly revolutionary tendencies, with a deep interest, he came at the age of 25 years in 1938; only chance prevented him from pursuing a university career in that field. The man and the times met: Camus joined the resistance movement during the occupation and after the liberation served as a columnist for the newspaper Combat.
The essay Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus), 1942, expounds notion of acceptance of the absurd of Camus with "the total absence of hope, which has nothing to do with despair, a continual refusal, which must not be confused with renouncement - and a conscious dissatisfaction."
Meursault, central character of L'Étranger (The Stranger), 1942, illustrates much of this essay: man as the nauseated victim of the absurd orthodoxy of habit, later - when the young killer faces execution - tempted by despair, hope, and salvation.
Besides his fiction and essays, Camus very actively produced plays in the theater (e.g., Caligula, 1944).
The time demanded his response, chiefly in his activities, but in 1947, Camus retired from political journalism.
Doctor Rieux of La Peste (The Plague), 1947, who tirelessly attends the plague-stricken citizens of Oran, enacts the revolt against a world of the absurd and of injustice, and confirms words: "We refuse to despair of mankind. Without having the unreasonable ambition to save men, we still want to serve them."
People also well know La Chute (The Fall), work of Camus in 1956.
Camus authored L'Exil et le royaume (Exile and the Kingdom) in 1957. His austere search for moral order found its aesthetic correlative in the classicism of his art. He styled of great purity, intense concentration, and rationality.
Camus died at the age of 46 years in a car accident near Sens in le Grand Fossard in the small town of Villeblevin.
Chinese 阿尔贝·加缪
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February 9, 2024
- ترجمت للعربية تحت عنوان "البكم" وترجمة العنوان صحيحة لأنهم امتنعوا عن الكلام ولم يكونوا بالأصل خرس.
- تجري احداث القصة في معمل (كناية عن المجتمع الصناعي) حيث يضرب العمال مطالبين برفع اجورهم، يُرفض طلبهم ويعودوا صاغرين للعمل( إمّا تعملون وإما تبقون عاطلين عن العمل، انه قراركم) وذلك لأن الفقير سيعاني الأمرين اذا توقف عن العمل بينما صاحب العمل يستطيع ان يقفل مصنعه ويبقى صامداً. اذاً، فالإضراب والصياح لم يجديا نفعاً فمال العمال نحو حل جديد الا وهو الصمت، وكان الصمت اشد وقعاً على رب العمل من الصياح!
- اين كامو في القصة؟ فإلى الآن القصة عادية! الموت، هناك يضرب كامو بقلمه، فالفتاة الصغيرة (ابنة صاحب المعمل) تموت، فالموت عبثي لا يفهم بالطبقات وبالعملات الصعبة!... وبالتالي فإن الاضراب والصمت والعمل والفقر والغنى و.... كلها عبث بعبث عند وصول الموت!
- قصة تعكس واقعنا الحالي بشكل حاد، فالتحولات التي اصابت مجتمعاتنا حولتها الى مجتمعات تحكمها غلاقة العامل برب العمل، وكل من خاض في هذا المجال يدرك عما اتحدث...
- تجري احداث القصة في معمل (كناية عن المجتمع الصناعي) حيث يضرب العمال مطالبين برفع اجورهم، يُرفض طلبهم ويعودوا صاغرين للعمل( إمّا تعملون وإما تبقون عاطلين عن العمل، انه قراركم) وذلك لأن الفقير سيعاني الأمرين اذا توقف عن العمل بينما صاحب العمل يستطيع ان يقفل مصنعه ويبقى صامداً. اذاً، فالإضراب والصياح لم يجديا نفعاً فمال العمال نحو حل جديد الا وهو الصمت، وكان الصمت اشد وقعاً على رب العمل من الصياح!
- اين كامو في القصة؟ فإلى الآن القصة عادية! الموت، هناك يضرب كامو بقلمه، فالفتاة الصغيرة (ابنة صاحب المعمل) تموت، فالموت عبثي لا يفهم بالطبقات وبالعملات الصعبة!... وبالتالي فإن الاضراب والصمت والعمل والفقر والغنى و.... كلها عبث بعبث عند وصول الموت!
- قصة تعكس واقعنا الحالي بشكل حاد، فالتحولات التي اصابت مجتمعاتنا حولتها الى مجتمعات تحكمها غلاقة العامل برب العمل، وكل من خاض في هذا المجال يدرك عما اتحدث...
January 5, 2021
**4.5 stars**
"We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox."
---Nicholas Sparks(The Notebook)
"At forty he's not yet in a wheelchair, but he's definitely heading in that direction. Wasn't that just why he now avoided looking towards the sea during the ride to the other end of town where the cooper's shop was?"
The most melancholically realistic and non metaphorical story of Camus, or should I say one of the most, as I haven't read him all? Anyway...it's the story of a middle-aged man from a lower-middle class family, who, like the most had given up even his few simple avocations to cope up with the day-to-day financial crisis. How he had been a part of an unsuccessful workers' strike, that had declined his resources further; and all that. But he kept silence, just like his fellow workers.
As rightfully portrayed throughout the pages, silence isn't always due to lack of communication scopes or something. In scenarios like this, silence, most of the time is highly stifling and discomforting, for the antagonist. Well not necessarily antagonist, say the opponent, maybe in debate. Relatable, isn't it, even when we disagree with someone on something, most of the times we don't want their silence. We want them to talk back, even fight back. One of the many explanations can be that it gets unbearably confusing, and we often fear that the opponent is actually thinking exactly what we don't want them to think.
Also Camus gave quite an unusual message (i.e. coming from him), in the beginning we may not agree or rather be able to cope up with someone. Hostility, or rather fights can also happen. But end of the day, if we are more humane rather than human, and if we aren't just, say out of love for each other, we can't possibly be indifferent to each other at moments of despair. I guess I have told a great deal more about the story than I intend to, by now.
Camus' stories are as brilliant as his novels, mostly because each and every one of them forces me(at least) to think harder. Just some great food for thought for, say one day at a time? His all works are evergreen, I can safely say this much.
"When he had finished, he didn't stir, looking towards the sea where already, from one end of the horizon to the other, the twilight was swiftly falling."
"We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox."
---Nicholas Sparks(The Notebook)
"At forty he's not yet in a wheelchair, but he's definitely heading in that direction. Wasn't that just why he now avoided looking towards the sea during the ride to the other end of town where the cooper's shop was?"
The most melancholically realistic and non metaphorical story of Camus, or should I say one of the most, as I haven't read him all? Anyway...it's the story of a middle-aged man from a lower-middle class family, who, like the most had given up even his few simple avocations to cope up with the day-to-day financial crisis. How he had been a part of an unsuccessful workers' strike, that had declined his resources further; and all that. But he kept silence, just like his fellow workers.
As rightfully portrayed throughout the pages, silence isn't always due to lack of communication scopes or something. In scenarios like this, silence, most of the time is highly stifling and discomforting, for the antagonist. Well not necessarily antagonist, say the opponent, maybe in debate. Relatable, isn't it, even when we disagree with someone on something, most of the times we don't want their silence. We want them to talk back, even fight back. One of the many explanations can be that it gets unbearably confusing, and we often fear that the opponent is actually thinking exactly what we don't want them to think.
Also Camus gave quite an unusual message (i.e. coming from him), in the beginning we may not agree or rather be able to cope up with someone. Hostility, or rather fights can also happen. But end of the day, if we are more humane rather than human, and if we aren't just, say out of love for each other, we can't possibly be indifferent to each other at moments of despair. I guess I have told a great deal more about the story than I intend to, by now.
Camus' stories are as brilliant as his novels, mostly because each and every one of them forces me(at least) to think harder. Just some great food for thought for, say one day at a time? His all works are evergreen, I can safely say this much.
"When he had finished, he didn't stir, looking towards the sea where already, from one end of the horizon to the other, the twilight was swiftly falling."
August 2, 2015
A citi Camus înseamnă a medita concomitent cu răsfoirea paginilor.
August 29, 2019
الغضب و اليأس كثيرا ما يؤلمان الى الحد الذي يعجز فيه من يصيباه عن البكاء...شعور بتعب فؤاد مثقل بالهموم ...ليس لديه ما يقوله ...اثر الصمت...ليس لوحده...اثروا جميعا الصمت...عندما تظلم...و لكن الظالم بظلمه بائس اخر...و صمته اشد....هل هي عداله السماء! قاصمه...من منهما ضحيه!
March 1, 2014
One would think that this is not just a story, that these characters and their common predicament are symbols of some great and profound things, that Albert Camus is telling us much more than what he is telling us.
Here are ordinary working men, coopers in a shop who had demanded a raise, were refused, staged a strike which failed. Now they are returning to work, defeated, and silent. The main protagonist Yvars feels old age slowly and surely creeping up on him and he says he knows what he and his vanquished co-workers are thinking but cannot say:
"that they were not sulking, that their mouths had been closed, (that) they had to take it or leave it, and that anger and helplessness sometimes hurt so much that you can't even cry out."
Here are ordinary working men, coopers in a shop who had demanded a raise, were refused, staged a strike which failed. Now they are returning to work, defeated, and silent. The main protagonist Yvars feels old age slowly and surely creeping up on him and he says he knows what he and his vanquished co-workers are thinking but cannot say:
"that they were not sulking, that their mouths had been closed, (that) they had to take it or leave it, and that anger and helplessness sometimes hurt so much that you can't even cry out."
May 30, 2017
A man goes to work with his crew on strike. The story reflects on life as a worker and choices we make. It reads as one which you want to know what point he tries to make, or what plot, crisis, conflict, resolution? It unfolds as a philosophical reflection instead.
September 22, 2022
Silence says it all! A group of workers are forced to return to their factory after the failure of their strike and acknowledging the fact that their boss will always have the upper hand. The story is not typical proletariat literature though because the eminent death of the little girl, the boss' daughter, brings about the further absurdity of the whole situation. Resorting to silence is the last refuge and refusing to sympathize with the little dying girl are the only weapons left for them to fight back with, truly, silence says it all.
April 4, 2024
“Yvars now felt only his fatigue and his still heavy heart. He would have liked to talk. But he had nothing to say, nor did the others. On their uncommunicative faces could be read merely sorrow and a sort of obstinacy.”
the silence says more than if they had conversed. this story conveys the idea that death disparages life’s daily struggles.
the silence says more than if they had conversed. this story conveys the idea that death disparages life’s daily struggles.
June 17, 2025
Favorite Quote:
"But resignation isn't easy either. It was difficult to close your mouth, not argue, and keep taking the same route every morning with increasing fatigue, and at the end of the week receive only what they designed to give you, which was increasingly inadequate."
My Thoughts:
No mystique, magic, or complex allegory as shown in the other two stories I've read in this book -- only an ordinary fate of silence that most share in life.
"But resignation isn't easy either. It was difficult to close your mouth, not argue, and keep taking the same route every morning with increasing fatigue, and at the end of the week receive only what they designed to give you, which was increasingly inadequate."
My Thoughts:
No mystique, magic, or complex allegory as shown in the other two stories I've read in this book -- only an ordinary fate of silence that most share in life.
May 31, 2021
A group of men feel they aren't being compensated fairly for their work. Boss says no raise. Well, like the old joke goes: "There is a club for those people, it's called EVERYBODY, they meet at 5pm at the corner bar."
February 6, 2026
"Death just shows the ultimate absurdity of life" - AJ Soprano
January 29, 2017
Creo que esta es una de las representaciones más interesantes que he leído del conflicto obreros-patrón, porque se centra en el aspecto humano de los implicados. Al mismo tiempo, de fondo está la amenaza del Absurdo de Camus, de estas vidas dedicadas sin descanso a (en este caso) la labor manual mientras los sueños son un espejismo inalcanzable y la rutina se convierte en evasión.
* Ambientes: Fábrica, puerto, urbano.
* Enfermedad: Cojera, enfermedad no especificada (ataque).
* Ambientes: Fábrica, puerto, urbano.
* Enfermedad: Cojera, enfermedad no especificada (ataque).
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