515 The Plague by Albert Camus (with Alice Kaplan and Laura Marris) | My Last Book with Alison Strayer
The History of Literature
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The Philosophy of the Absurd
Camus was very irritated by the dominance, I think, of the Sartre Beauvoir School. He would always say laughing that he was not an existentialist and people asked him how many existentialists there were in France. So like these kinds of gestures of refusal toward the totalizing narrative of existentialism are important with him.
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