Albert Camusin a sentence
- Have you read anything by Camus?† (source)
- The class loved Sartre and Camus—the concept of "the unyielding evidence of a life without consolation" was thrilling to us teenagers.† (source)
- It's Me, Margaret, she read Camus's Resistance, Rebellion, and Death.† (source)
- Part I. The absurd does not liberate; it binds. — ALBERT CAMUS† (source)
- THE STRANGER BY ALBERT CAMUS† (source)
- Perhaps what she meets in the cave is instead Nothingness, albeit some years before Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, and the existentialists of the 1950s and 1960s articulate the dichotomy between, in Sartre's terms, Being and Nothingness.† (source)
- Other important writers were the Frenchman Albert Camus, the Irishman Samuel Beckett, Eugene lonesco, who was from Romania, and Witold Gombro-wicz from Poland.† (source)
- That was even before another dressing down in front of a patron, this time from Bethany, who felt compelled to point out-twice-that, to her trained ear, I'd mispronounced Albert Camus' name while directing a sullen summer school student to the French literature section.† (source)
- "A pattern that continued with the always-clad-in-black Katherine XIV, who I met that spring when she came up to me at a coffee shop and asked if I was reading Camus, which I was, and I said I was, and then she asked if I had ever read Kierkegaard, and I said I had because I had, and then by the time we left the coffee shop we were holding hands and her phone number was in MN brand-new cell phone, and she liked to take me for walks on the lakeshore, where we'd watch the waves crashing…† (source)
- That would mean Sartre and Camus and all those characters were right—all is chaos, life has no meaning.† (source)
- Camus is often described as an existentialist, but he insisted that he was not.
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- Two and a half millennia later, Albert Camus not only uses plague, he calls his novel The Plague (1947).† (source)
- Now neither Camus's nor Sophocles' use is particularly subtle or hard to get, but in their overt way they teach us how other writers may use illness when it is less central.† (source)
- In examining how a person confronts the wholesale devastation wrought by disease, Camus can set his existentialist philosophy into motion in a fictional setting: the isolation and uncertainty caused by the disease, the absurdly random nature of infection, the despair felt by a doctor in the face of an unstoppable epidemic, the desire to act even while recognizing the pointlessness of action.† (source)
- — Camus She'll be back soon.† (source)
- The Stranger -- Albert Camus -- Translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert Part One I MOTHER died today.† (source)
- Run and get a pennyworth of salt from Camus.† (source)
- I may as well go across to Camus….† (source)
- Another Combray person whom I could discern also, potential and typified, in the gothic sculptures of Saint-Andre-des-Champs was young Theodore, the assistant in Camus's shop.† (source)
- "But that must be M. Pupin's daughter," Francoise would say, preferring to stick to an immediate explanation, since she had been perhaps twice already into Camus's shop that morning.† (source)
- …than the rest, for the flowers which clung to its branches, one above another, so thickly as to leave no part of the tree undecorated, like the tassels wreathed about the crook of a rococo shepherdess, were every one of them 'in colour,' and consequently of a superior quality, by the aesthetic standards of Combray, to the 'plain,' if one was to judge by the scale of prices at the 'stores' in the Square, or at Camus's, where the most expensive biscuits were those whose sugar was pink.† (source)
- …and illustrating, no doubt, in themselves that strange and pious melancholy which was peculiar to Combray; proprietors of the town, though not of any particular house there; dwelling, presumably, out of doors, in the street, between heaven and earth, like that Gilbert de Guermantes, of whom I could see, in the stained glass of the apse of Saint-Hilaire, only the 'other side' in dull black lacquer, if I raised my eyes to look for him, when I was going to Camus's for a packet of salt.† (source)
- It was hardly light enough for me to read, and my feeling of the day's brightness and splendour was derived solely from the blows struck down below, in the Rue de la Cure, by Camus (whom Francoise had assured that my aunt was not 'resting' and that he might therefore make a noise), upon some old packing-cases from which nothing would really be sent flying but the dust, though the din of them, in the resonant atmosphere that accompanies hot weather, seemed to scatter broadcast a rain of…† (source)
- For even if I had purchased it at Combray, having seen it outside Borange's, whose grocery lay too far from our house for Francoise to be able to deal there, as she did with Camus, but who enjoyed better custom as a stationer and bookseller; even if I had seen it, tied with string to keep it in its place in the mosaic of monthly parts and pamphlets which adorned either side of his doorway, a doorway more mysterious, more teeming with suggestion than that of a cathedral, I should have…† (source)
- If you would have the goodness to order Camus, the grocer, to let me have a little soap, it would really be more convenient for you, as I needn't trouble you then."† (source)
- And Sarsfield and O'Donnell, duke of Tetuan in Spain, and Ulysses Browne of Camus that was fieldmarshal to Maria Teresa.† (source)
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