If so, why?
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Bluesman — 6 years ago(February 17, 2020 08:08 AM)
The idea of life being absurd is a convincing one, but it's one Camus pretty much lifts from Kierkegaard. His own spin on it was to say we must embrace the absurd rather than try to escape it. But if life is absurd, embracing it is no more valid than rejecting it in my opinion. Camus accepts the is-ought problem but then fails to see the inconsistency in saying we "ought" to embrace the absurdity it leads to.
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dbentley666 — 6 years ago(February 17, 2020 01:29 PM)
Kafka, easily. Though if you read Kafka through a Kierkegaardian lens his stories are allegories about the incomprehensibility of divine power and thus might be less depressing.
Credo quia impossibile est
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Platonic_Caveman — 6 years ago(February 17, 2020 04:11 PM)
Who is more depressing, Camus or Kafka?
Kafka is austere. He doesn't sink to the banal depths like Camus. The Stranger walked in a dreary fog. Just awful. Depression and Algerian heat.
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Platonic_Caveman — 6 years ago(February 17, 2020 04:24 PM)
Exactly. The Stranger couldn't be bothered to know when his own mother died. At least K. climbed the steps to The Castle.
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dbentley666 — 6 years ago(February 17, 2020 04:27 PM)
But one cannot equate C's mother with K's castle. The latter is a symbol of the incomprehensible divine, the former just a woman who nursed the man who would play football for Algiers and quarrel with Sartre in a Parisian bar.
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Platonic_Caveman — 6 years ago(February 17, 2020 04:43 PM)
The question was whether Kafka or Camus was more depressing though. I never found Kafka depressing. Camus was just bleak.
Frankly my relationship with a former lover was sabotaged by Camus.
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None — 6 years ago(February 17, 2020 01:48 PM)
He played in goal until TB put a stop to all that…
Any hopes Camus had of playing serious football were dashed after he contracted TB. There was no cure for the condition at that time and attacks resulted in long and painful periods of bed-rest. Before his illness, Camus played in goal for the Racing Universitaire Algerios (RUA) junior team. Match reports often had high praise for Camus, who played bravely and with passion.
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