A Happy Death (Penguin Modern Classics)

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A Happy Death (Penguin Modern Classics)

A Happy Death (Penguin Modern Classics)

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Works, such as the novels The Stranger (1942) and The Plague (1947), of Algerian-born French writer and philosopher Albert Camus concern the absurdity of the human condition; he won the Nobel Prize of 1957 for literature.

Life often unfolds as a bittersweet veil, a tragedy for souls that feel, and a comedy for those who think, Meursault manages to do both (but thats every self-proclaimed existentialist ever, no?) Meursault here is definitely a more relatable character, always yearning for happiness but never knowing where to find it. He realized it was not about the end goal, what matters most is the friends he made all alo.. Wait, what? Whatever begins has to end, Meursault understood that to find happiness, one must comprehend the fragility of one's existence and then dances with the inevitability of its conclusion. In simple words: be authentic and live life with courage. I was particularly dissatisfied with, even confused by, many weaknesses of transition. After killing Zagreus and going off to Prague and later Vienna, Mersault has a miserable time since he lives so poorly and in miserable dives. But why would he do so? He has a great fortune -- the money stolen from Zagreus -- and just a few short months later in Algeria he buys a glorious home overlook the sea and lives quite well. The entire episode of Zagreus' murder is confusion. It seems Zagreus strongly suggested his own murder to Mersault and wants Patrice to have the happiness he cannot achieve. Yet this is ambiguous. Is this a humanitarian act from which he dramatically benefits, or is this purely and simply a murder of greed? Again, the writing is not clear. As the novel follows the protagonist, Patrice Mersault, to his victim's house -- and then, fleeing, in a journey that takes him through stages of exile, hedonism, privation, and death -it gives us a glimpse into the imagination of one of the great writers of the twentieth century. For here is the young Camus himself, in love with the sea and sun, enraptured by women yet disdainful of romantic love, and already formulating the philosophy of action and moral responsibility that would make him central to the thought of our time.The Plague is the longest, the most realistic, and artistically the most impressive of Camus’s novels, offering a richly varied cast of characters and a coherent and riveting plot, bringing an integrated world memorably to life while stimulating the reader’s capacity for moral reflection. In spite of its vivid realism, The Plague is no less mythical and allegorical in its impact than is The Stranger. When first published, The Plague was widely interpreted as a novel about the German Occupation and the French Resistance, with the plague symbolizing the evil presence of the Nazis. Since the 1940’s, however, more universal themes and symbols have been discovered in the book, including the frighteningly random nature of evil and the perception that humankind’s conquest of evil is never more than provisional, that the struggle will always have to be renewed. It has also been widely recognized that The Plague is, in significant degree, a profound meditation on the frustrating limits of human language both as a means of communication and as a means of representing the truth about human existence. The discovery of that theme has made The Plague the most modern of Camus’s novels, the one with the most to say to future generations of Camus’s readers. I liked Camus' variation on the theme from Nietzsche since his will to power is too often understood in senses relative to war and violence. On the other hand, Mersault's will to happiness is such a focused and limited aim. I guess I would prefer a third version -- a will to meaningfulness. Mersault çıktığı yolculuktan sonra Cezayir’e yerleşince hastalığın pençesine yakalanır. Mutluluk için adam öldüren kişi mutlu ölümün anlamını keşfeder yavaş yavaş. Ona göre mutlu ölüm, ardında seni sevenlerin olması demek değildir. Zamanı elinde tutma becerisi olan bir insanın hayata sıkı sıkı tutunup kendi yaşamını bir üst basamağa çıkarabilmesidir. Böylelikle ölüm korkusu yenilecektir. v] Commentators have wondered what to do with these fragmentary and aphoristic reflections, because so much of them is given over not to theoretical or literary developments, but to Camus’ own philosophical practice of trying to actualise, in life, his philosophical principles, just as Marcus Aurelius had done in his Meditations. lucidity” ( lucidité) or “clear-sightedness” ( clairvoyance). And again, the way Camus describes its

The time demanded his response, chiefly in his activities, but in 1947, Camus retired from political journalism. Plays: Révolte dans les Asturies, pb. 1936 (with others); Caligula, pb. 1944 (wr. 1938-1939; English translation, 1948); Le Malentendu, pr., pb. 1944 (The Misunderstanding, 1948); L’État de siège, pr., pb. 1948 (State of Siege, 1958); Les Justes, pr. 1949 (The Just Assassins, 1958); Caligula, and Three Other Plays, 1958; Les Possédés, pr., pb. 1959 (adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevski’s novel Besy; The Possessed, 1960). The story opens with Patrice Mersault (a character whose broad outline is resurrected in Camus’ later work The Stranger) shooting a cripple named Roland Zagreus who has decided to bequeath Mersault a small fortune for doing so, because he feels Mersault might be able to fulfil in life that which is no longer a possibility for Zagreus. The shooting, therefore, is not a crime of passion. Nevertheless Mersault is thoroughly saturated by his passions; seizing them, extending them or silently smothering the flame of life that burns inside him in some kind of act of self-mastery. isteyen bir sakata onu öldürerek yardım etmiş, onun mutlu olmasını sağlamış olur ve bir nevi kendi mutluluğunu satın alır.As the novel follows the protagonist, Patrice Mersault, to his victim’s house — and then, fleeing, in a journey that takes him through stages of exile, hedonism, privation, and death -it gives us a glimpse into the imagination of one of the great writers of the twentieth century. For here is the young Camus himself, in love with the sea and sun, enraptured by women yet disdainful of romantic love, and already formulating the philosophy of action and moral responsibility that would make him central to the thought of our time. Mutlu ölüm, Yabancı’da olduğu gibi yine varoluşçuluk üzerine dayalı ve bu düşünceleri karakterin ağzından aktaran, sürükleyici ve etkileyici bir roman. Two persistent themes animate all of Albert Camus’s writing and underlie his artistic vision: One is the enigma of the universe, which is breathtakingly beautiful yet indifferent to life; the other is the enigma of man, whose craving for happiness and meaning in life remains unextinguished by his full awareness of his own mortality and of the sovereign indifference of his environment. At the root of every novel, every play, every essay, even every entry in his notebooks can be found Camus’s incessant need to probe and puzzle over the ironic double bind that he perceived to be the essence of the human condition: Man is endowed with the imagination to conceive an ideal existence, but neither his circumstances nor his own powers permit its attainment. The perception of this hopeless double bind made inescapable for Camus the obligation to face up to an overriding moral issue for man: Given man’s circumscribed condition, are there honorable terms on which his life can be lived? A Happy Death



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