A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Search for Meaning
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A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Search for Meaning
14.99 €
This is the first biography of Albert Camus in Russian. For its author, American historian Robert Zaretsky, Camus's life and works, which have become classics of world literature and existentialist philosophy, are not so much a part of the past as a prehistory of the present.
"The nobility of the writer's craft lies in the obligation to live without lies and to fight oppression," the author of "The Plague," "The Myth of Sisyphus," and "The Stranger" said in his Nobel speech in 1957. The five themes of the hero that particularly concerned the French philosopher - absurdity, silence, measure, fidelity, and rebellion - became for him a hieroglyph, a garden of diverging paths, and a navigation system in this "ugly but stunning world."
You can wander along them in search of the meaning of life, when it is important, if not to find hope, then at least not to fall into despair. Camus himself was led by this drifting to the understanding that in the depths of winter there lived within him an “invincible summer.” Not bad, right?
"The nobility of the writer's craft lies in the obligation to live without lies and to fight oppression," the author of "The Plague," "The Myth of Sisyphus," and "The Stranger" said in his Nobel speech in 1957. The five themes of the hero that particularly concerned the French philosopher - absurdity, silence, measure, fidelity, and rebellion - became for him a hieroglyph, a garden of diverging paths, and a navigation system in this "ugly but stunning world."
You can wander along them in search of the meaning of life, when it is important, if not to find hope, then at least not to fall into despair. Camus himself was led by this drifting to the understanding that in the depths of winter there lived within him an “invincible summer.” Not bad, right?
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