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RowReads1
The Ethics of Ambiguity | Simone de Beauvoir
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uncommonlycozies I‘m reading The Evolution of Desire right now & I think I‘m going to pair it with The Ethics of Ambiguity now! Just to stay in the realm. Thanks 😊 2w
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Eggs
The Stranger | Albert Camus
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1: Latin bc it was the origin of so many languages

2: L‘Etranger (The Stranger) - I read it in French

#Two4Tuesday on Wednesday!! Thanks for tag @Kshakal

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TheSpineView Thanks for playing 🥰😊🤩 3w
Eggs @TheSpineView My pleasure 🙏🏻 3w
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danx
The Stranger | Albert Camus
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Finally read the renowned work, this the American translation. I know at it‘s time it was quite impactful. I find it more interesting for how much has been made of it over time and it‘s historical & geographic placement rather than the content itself. Men abusing dogs, women, and indifferent to others. A man writing a male protagonist who attracts a woman for not much reason. Some good quotes and moments but not a lot there today for my interest.

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ImperfectCJ
The Stranger | Albert Camus
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I read The Plague years ago (while pregnant with my first, whose 20th birthday is today), and while I kept meaning to read this one, it took my second-born reading it in high school and begging his father and me to read it to get me finally to pick it up. It's a quick read, the style reminiscent of Hemingway in the first half. As my son promised, there are some fire quotes in here, as well as musings about existence in the modern age. I liked it.

Scochrane26 I first read this in French class but didn‘t remember much about it. So I reread it (in English) a few years ago. 4w
ImperfectCJ @Scochrane26 My son's English class read this, Oedipus Rex, and Crime and Punishment, which I think is a very interesting grouping. How did you find The Stranger when you read it in English? I also see it translated as The Outsider...is it the same word for both in French? 4w
BarbaraBB I read The Plague too when I was really young and still remember it. Much much later I read The Stranger and unfortunately didn‘t enjoy it as much. I hope you have a better experience. Oh and I love you son‘s English teacher 🥰 4w
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Faranae @ImperfectCJ It's the same word in French: “étranger“. It can also be translated as “Foreigner“. You can't use “extérieur“ as a singular noun to mean a person rather than a place. 4w
ImperfectCJ @BarbaraBB I definitely like her style! My son has been talking every night about his readings for class and is even enjoying reading outside the curriculum, which I was worried he'd dropped entirely in favor of YouTube videos! I need to send his teacher a thank you card. :-) 4w
Liz_M @ImperfectCJ I'm trying to come up with an informal name for this class -- is The Guilty Murder Club too obvious? 4w
ImperfectCJ @Liz_M That's better than what I thought of (Remorse and Remorselessness in World Literature). But both are more descriptive than Honors English 10, which is the actual name of the class. 😁 4w
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ImperfectCJ
The Stranger | Albert Camus
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"So, with all the sleep, my memories, reading my crime story, and the alternation of light and darkness, time passed...days could be both long and short at the same time: long to live through, maybe, but so drawn out that they ended up flowing into one another. They lost their names. Only the words 'yesterday' and 'tomorrow' still had any meaning for me."

He's talking about prison, but this works to describe how a lot of 2020 felt, too.

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bibliothecarivs
The Stranger | Albert Camus
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Recent acquisition:

📖 The Stranger by Albert Camus

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motty
The Stranger | Albert Camus
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A book about a murder portrayed as meaningless.
The emotional experience Camus delivers by refusing to provide an explanation for the murder perfectly reflects our struggle to cope with the complexities of life and our need to find a reason for evil. (Through the mechanism of projection, we try to locate the cause of evil outside of ourselves to make sense of the complex parts within.)
An emotionally fascinating journey.

tpixie I remember reading this in French class in high school and enjoying it. Unfortunately, I‘m no longer as fluent in French…. 5mo
motty @tpixie There's nothing like reading a book in its original language 5mo
tpixie @motty yes! 5mo
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lil1inblue
The Myth of Sisyphus | Albert Camus
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 👍🏻 7mo
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KMCRamsek
The Outsider | Albert Camus
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Bro is freaky.
Probably his only book I like.
(Those two things are not connected)

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cephellapod
The Stranger | Albert Camus
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Love it