L'Etranger - at 75

[Nearly Sane]

And still as fresh as a 1 day old corpse


http://www.port-magazine.com/literature/remembering-albert-camus/

[Dicky Underpants]

And still as fresh as a 1 day old corpse


http://www.port-magazine.com/literature/remembering-albert-camus/

"Though loathing the label, he gave existentialism a fashionable edge"

Camus did indeed loathe being labelled an 'existentialist', and was keen to point out the differences between his philosophical approach and Sartre's. I think he preferred to be called "a philosopher of the absurd". And though he did think life 'absurd', and despite being tuberculer,  he still had a sense of its capacity to deliver physical and aethetic pleasures (and certainly indulged in the sexual ones). Sartre sometimes seemed to view the universe as a venomous snake (though denying it any intentionality one way or the other).

I was certainly influenced by his thought once, and liked the 'La Peste' at school (though whether the latter was really the ground-breaking novel it was claimed to be, I doubt).

[Nearly Sane]

As a novel, any of Camus isn't groundbreaking but it is interesting. That he used the novel as he did was better than other philosopher in his use of fiction. His life also was his philosophy but I suspect here it is easier when you say what you are rather than what you should be.