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Dec 4, 2024 | 
theatlantic.com | Albert Camus
THE schoolmaster was watching the two men climb toward him. One was on horseback, the other on foot. They had not yet tackled the abrupt rise leading to the schoolhouse built on the hillside. They were toiling onward, making slow progress in the snow, among the stones, on the vast expanse of the high, deserted plateau. From time to time the horse stumbled. He could not be heard yet but the breath issuing from his nostrils could be seen.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
fabula.org | Albert Camus
Le 3 janvier 1960, quittant le Luberon, pour ne plus y revenir — il allait trouver la mort sur la route de Paris —, Albert Camus laissait à Lourmarin le plan d’un recueil d’écrits politiques et intellectuels. Un « Actuelles IV » qui devait succéder aux trois premiers déjà publiés. Et qui ne vit jamais le jour.
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
fabula.org | Albert Camus
Le 3 janvier 1960, quittant le Luberon, pour ne plus y revenir — il allait trouver la mort sur la route de Paris —, Albert Camus laissait à Lourmarin le plan d’un recueil d’écrits politiques et intellectuels. Un « Actuelles IV » qui devait succéder aux trois premiers déjà publiés. Et qui ne vit jamais le jour.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Pico Iyer |Albert Camus
Essential reading for anyone interested in the monastic tradition and those who follow it. The noted traveler, journalist, and author turns to an unexpected subject: the monastic life of contemplation and meditation. Iyer takes his title from the great fires that have lately ravaged California, where he has long retreated to a monastery run by Camaldolese monks, “the most contemplative congregation of Benedictines.” Contemplative the inhabitants may be, but they are very much people of the world.
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Sep 14, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Rod Dreher |Emmanuel Acho |Albert Camus
If you’re inclined to Orthodox fundamentalism, then this is your book. If not, not. An admittedly “strange book” about religious faith and its necessary willing suspension of disbelief. It’s one thing to believe in an invisible sky deity.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
worldliteraturetoday.org | Michelle Johnson |Daniel Simon |Thich Nhat Hanh |Albert Camus
This page is available to subscribers. Click here to sign in or get access. In the summer of 2022 I (James Fawcett) walked from Denver to Durango on the Colorado Trail. I started the walk alone and eighteen years old, having just finished my freshman year of college.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Todd May |Robert Greene |Albert Camus
A provocative book for readers willing to engage. A professor of philosophy reflects on whether or not humanity should continue to exist. The early 21st century has been defined by manmade global crises—ecological, political, and economic—that show few signs of abating. In the face of so much suffering and devastation, May, author of A Decent Life, A Fragile Life, and other books of philosophy, dares to ask a disturbing question: Would the end of humanity be a good thing for the planet?
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Jun 15, 2024 | 
morganton.com | Albert Camus
“In the midst of winter, there was within me, an invincible summer.”Albert Camus is a writer often associated with the French existential literary philosophy. He wrote many essays, a few novels and plays. He is one of the youngest writers to win the Nobel Peace Prize for literature and died tragically in a car crash a few years after. His work is prized by many and often quoted. The above is one of his most-quoted sayings. Camus argues life is meant to be lived and to be lived fully.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
news24online.com | Albert Camus |Samuel Beckett |Franz Kafka
The belief is that individuals create their own meaning in an indifferent world. Here are nine classic works exploring this theme:
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Keith Walker |Albert Camus
A conversational, pleasurable look into McConaughey’s life and thought. All right, all right, all right: The affable, laconic actor delivers a combination of memoir and self-help book. “This is an approach book,” writes McConaughey, adding that it contains “philosophies that can be objectively understood, and if you choose, subjectively adopted, by either changing your reality, or changing how you see it.
