Josh’s Reviews > Correspondance > Status Update

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Je me découvre des goûts aristocratiques et un penchant et un penchant funeste pour le mépris de « la masse ». C’est très laid ; c’est même, je crois, un signe certain d’une fêlure dans mon cœur à moi et j’en suis tout abasourdie. Mais que faire sinon attendre que Dieu me redonne et la pitié, et l’humilité et la générosité

Putting this book on hold again for now

Putting this book on hold here. This is not my first exposure to correspondence, but this was an interesting exercise in learning French. The delirious, jovial exchange of love and passion between Camus and Casarès is enviable. Make of that what you will. I should return to this book when I feel I have the time and headspace for such intense emotion—oh, and perhaps with a better dominion of the language!

I’m thinking of pausing when I finish the letters of 1949. Reading this book has been a great companion to taking up French again on Duolingo lol. But I’m no tenacious Marites. I’m essentially reading a supposedly private chatroom. It gets boring if you’re not so invested in either people. That said, Albert and Maria were two very interesting people. I’ll get back to them soon.