Aronson, Ronald (2004). Camus & Sartre: The Story of a Friendship and the Quarrel that Ended It. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-02796-1.

His early essays were collected in L'Envers et l'endroit ( The Wrong Side and the Right Side) and Noces ( Nuptials). He went to Paris, where he worked on the newspaper Paris Soir before returning to Algeria. His play, Caligula, appeared in 1939. His first two important books, L'Etranger ( The Outsider) and the long essay Le Mythe de Sisyphe ( The Myth of Sisyphus), were published when he returned to Paris.

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He died tragically and unexpectedly in a car accident with his publisher, the well known Michel Gallimard. Gallimard still reigns as a publishing house in France! Linker, Damon. The Theocons: Secular America Under Siege. New York: Doubleday, 2006. Controversial description of the rising influence of religion in American culture and politics, which focuses on the journal First Things and features a lengthy quote from Bottum on public religiosity. And I'm very glad I did, in case that wasn't obvious. I've read books of varying lengths and qualities and genres this month, as I attempt to clear my owned to-read list, but few will stay with me like this will. Bottum’s images of fall raise the central questions of human and Christian life. The title evokes both a New England autumn and humankind’s first descent into sin. Evocations of violence, judgment, forgiveness, and mercy are sprinkled through each section. The dominant metaphor of fire in September describes the blaze of colors of a New England autumn but also makes explicit violent references to the “welcome slaughter,” “blood and spew and mongerings of war,” and “flames like the blood of martyrs.” Biblical hints resonate in the allusions of “children pass[ing] through fire” (Isaiah 43:1-2; Daniel 3:26) and to “fire falls” and “the world [a]s kindling for the Lord.” (Luke 12:49: “I came to bring fire to the earth and how I wish it were already kindled!”) Camus is known first and foremost for his writings, but he was also a French Resistance fighter and a philosopher. He was born and grew up in Algeria, a French colony at the time. Camus’ early life greatly influenced his writings, and he was famously anti-colonialist. He worked for a leftist newspaper in Algiers until it was eventually shut down, and then decided to move to Paris in 1940.

By the time Camus got to Paris, World War II had officially begun in France. He wanted to join the army but was unable to because he contracted tuberculosis when he was 17 years old. This didn’t stop Camus from serving his country: he became involved with the French Resistance movement as an underground journalist for the Resistance newspaper Combat.The story's very ambiguity steadily feeds its mysteriousness and power, and Danielewski's mastery of postmodernist and cinema-derived rhetoric up the ante continuously, and stunningly. One of the most impressive excursions into the supernatural in many a year. That is the true role of the modern Christ. To take The Fall for you, so that he becomes the mirror in which you see the horror of your life. Life in Amsterdam [ edit ] Copy of the panel from the Ghent Altarpiece known as The Just Judges by Jef Van der Veken. The original was stolen in 1934 and never recovered. The Fall is a philosophical novel by Albert Camus. First published in 1956, it is his last complete work of fiction. Among other things, The Fall is an attempt to explain how humankind could be capable of perpetrating such evils. [ citation needed] Synopsis [ edit ] Life in Paris [ edit ]

The first solution, in Camus' words, is physical suicide. When people believe their life is not worth living and have no meaning, they might turn to this option. However, Camus believes this choice to be cowardly and a renunciation of life instead of a genuine revolt. The first choice is not recommended or endorsed by Camus.But also, in case I overdid it - this is still not intimidating. It's funny and short and it's clear. You could read it in an hour if you wanted to.