Thursday, December 11, 2025

An absurd exit

"…In 1960, at the age of forty-six, he was killed in a car crash. He was carrying a return train ticket at the time. As many (including Sartre) have pointed out, the greatest proponent of absurdism suffered an absurd death…"

https://literaryreview.co.uk/inside-the-outsider

The Complete Notebooks by Albert Camus (Translated from French by Ryan Bloom) - review by Joanna Kavenna
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