I understand that this isn’t Catcher in the Rye. I just want to get that out here in the beginning before I say this:
This is Catcher in the Rye.
The story feels like Holden Abroad and there’s this unsettled nature to it that ties the two stories together. A restless itch that makes the protagonist scratch his neck and shake his leg and find himself unable to sit still. A depression that bleeds both out into the world and from that same world into their very bones.
A hope for something better and a realization that this is probably as good as it’s ever going to be.
That said, CitR was a more believable story and at least it didn’t spring from a joke.
I just didn’t like the observational nature of this story - the whole “I saw myself doing this thing and had no idea WHY I was doing it.” That got real old real fast because at the end of the day we are not only our impacts but our motivations as well.
I finished this and a friend said they had to read it in college and hated it. I could see why people would hate this.
But I could also see why people would love it.
If you liked CitR, this might be worth your time! Maybe. Or you could read CitR, then read this for comparison, and then read CitR again and see that you’re correct: CitR IS a better story.
#bookstagram #book #books #bookreview #bookrecommendation #bookrecommendations #booklover #booknerd #bookaddict #bookcover #read #wordywordsonwords #readmore #readmorebooks #readersofinstagram #reader #constantreader #camus #albertcamus #thestranger #existentialism #catcherintherye
#Camus
These are the words of Jean Tarrou, a character in #Camus’ The Plague, quoted in a book I am currently reading. They remind me not to stand by and watch fascism take hold.
‘The good man is “the man who has the fewest lapses od attention.” What this comes down to Tarrou concludes is seeing and speaking clearly: “All of our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.” It is as if RIeux [a priest, character in the same story] and Farrou are channeling [Simone] Weil’s own insistence on the ethics of getting words right: “To clarify thought, discredit intrinsically meaningless words, and to define the use of others by precise analysis — to do this, strange though it may appear, might be a way of saving human lives.” It is only by getting the words right — describing the world as it is — that one can act rightly and resist on behalf of others and oneself. Totalitarianism — for which the Plague stands as the allegorical representation — gets words wrong. It uses them to describe a world that isn’t, and thus creates a world that should never be. It comes to power through the harrowing of terror and maintains itself through the hallowing of language.’
(Source: pp93-4 of Robert Zaretsky’s The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life In Five Ideas, Universtity of Chicago, 2021 )
That quotes from Camus’ works appear in a book about #SimoneWeil shouldn’t surprise given that Camus considered Weil a friend and that their #philosophical underpinnings are very similar.
Why am I tooting this? Oh.. because #trumpism , #fascism , #Journalism , especially our contemporary crop of Journos around the world and the corporate #mastheads they work for. Because #history is repeating itself. Because we all should heed what we say but resolutely say it, especially now. Because to wait for others to do it is absolutely the wrong thing to do if human lives matter at all.
#Fascists don’t care. They strip humanity of its dignity and act upon it as a if a collection of objects all the while forgetting how to think.
“One does not decide the truth of a thought according to whether it is right-wing or left-wing.” — Albert Camus #quotes #philosophy #camus #AlbertCamus #politics
Provence 2025: zesde etappe
Vandaag door Les Alpilles. Eerst vals plat, daarna een weg de heuvels in tussen de bomen die hier taai en verweerd zijn. De zomerse hitte is nog niet aanwezig deze maand maar laat ieder jaar zijn sporen na. Langzaam, bocht naar bocht. Er zijn wat weggetjes voor de bosbrandbestrijding.
Af en toe haalt een wielrenner me in. 1 mei, een nationale vrije dag. De Alpilles (kleine Alpen) zijn een […]
https://www.filmvanalledag.nl/2025/05/01/provence-zesde-etappe/
In der #Endabrechnung trägt jeder #Mensch die #Verantwortung für sein eigenes #Gesicht.
(Albert #Camus)
#psychotHHerapie #Zitat #Zitate #AlbertCamus
Imagine if #Sartre and #Camus had discovered Atomic Habits OR the Eighth Habit of Highly Effective People 😱
Would “Being and Nothingness” be a productivity manual?
From: @sarahf
https://mastodon.social/@sarahf/114421509266730502
#doorsday #photography #analogy #classicmotif #popularimagery #philosophy #literature #theology #arthistory #existentialism #ontology #camus #sartre #irony
![.. night monochrome shot of open doorway [so "door" is an "absent presence"]. Through the "door" there's an artificially lit staircase of the type ya find in multi-platform carparks [which is what this is] .. take it as it resonates ❗️🙏](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/391/710/889/744/934/original/11e044a27d97b825.jpg)
L'étranger
Albert CAMUS
Lu et déposé dans un wagon de train le 17 avril 2025
#Book #Livres #Livre #Lecture #Bibliothèque #Roman #Auteur #Littérature #Histoire #Pages #Écriture #Poésie #Essai #Édition #Classique #Conte #bookstagram #lecture #train #wagon #sncf #Lyon #camus
@derpostillon
Wir müssen Donald J. Trump als Verbündeten verstehen.
Reizt ihn, treibt ihn, holt das beste aus ihm raus.
#camus #AlbertCamus #sisyphos #zerstörung #heilsameZerstörung #aikido #politik #gesellschaft
Sobre el «efecto Sartre» en la condena dogmática en las izquierdas al pensamiento que no comulga con ellas (anarquista), presente en problemáticas de América Latina. Aquí la descarga del libro La libertad más allá de la izquierda de Rafael Uzcátegui.
https://rafaeluzcategui.blog/la-rebeldia-mas-alla-de-la-izquierda/
i fear we are fast approaching a dance band on the titanic situation and i want to go down fighting, dancing and ideally doing both while playing with the band.
remember it helps to know how to have a good time at a bad party.
#camus #resistance #free #rebellion #meme
Das #Leben ist die #Summe all unserer #Entscheidungen.
(Albert #Camus)
#psychotHHerapie #Zitat #Zitate #Verantwortung #AlbertCamus
“The evil in the world comes almost always from ignorance, and goodwill can cause as much damage as ill-will if it is not enlightened. People are more often good than bad, though in fact that is not the question. But they are more or less ignorant and this is what one calls vice or virtue, the most appalling vice being the ignorance that thinks it knows everything and which consequently authorizes itself to kill. The murderer's soul is blind, and there is no true goodness or fine love without the greatest possible degree of clear-sightedness.”
― Albert Camus
#vonnegut #camus #maga #nightmare #ignorance #vice #virtue
Death means nothing to men like me. It's the event that proves them right.
#einzelgänger #einzelganger #philosopher #quoteoftheday #philosophy #quotestoliveby #dailyquotes #thoughts #thoughtoftheday #lifequotes #absurdism #existentialism #existentialist #albertcamus #camus
Camus et l’absurde : une philosophie de la révolte et de l’affirmation
🎭 Albert Camus explore l'absurde, né du choc entre notre quête de sens et l'indifférence du monde. Face à ce dilemme, il rejette le suicide et l'évasion, prônant la révolte lucide et l'affirmation de la vie. Une philosophie qui invite à embrasser l'existence dans toute son intensité, malgré - ou grâce à - sa nature absurde. #Camus #Philosophie #Absurde Albert Camus : L'absurde comme tremplin vers…
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