is it good?

always.

always camus

but philosophers who write fiction can fuck off. allegories are for the most part shit.

or The Stranger as my version is.

but Jimmy Carter is smarter

Couldn't understand it that much as my french is terrible. Though in september i'm starting my degree in french+philosophy so I'm sure I will encounter them at some point. It's all very exciting.
I'll get back to you in a few years.

however i've got distracted by paul hegarty's masterful 'noise/music: a history.' which is amazing to say the least.

but Age of Reason over Outsider. But The Fall over Age of Reason. So Camus wins.

The Rebel = Nausea

I dunno, I mean Camus is hotter but Sartre has a hotter name. I'm trying to read Being and Nothingness and failing. Existentialism and Humanism is quite a snazzy speech though int it.

I dunno, I like them both.

I think my minor language will be French at UCL, even if it means having to spend my third year in Belgium.

but I like the Camus I've read.

as does L' Etranger. Actually Myth of Sisyphus beats Satre too. So Basically Camus FTW.

I have a Philosophy / Literature joint degree and thus on this topic MY WORD IS LAW.

existentialism and humanism and the age of reason by sartre. i prefer camus.

for sure. He's more hopeful, varied, less wallowing and pretentious.

because he was a goalkeeper. we're a special breed that must stick together.

The main character's essentially a pretty vile wasteman who is used by Sartre as a conduit to justify his own bourgeois lifestyle. The Autodidact for me is the hero, and then Sartre outs him as a paedophile at the end. Great.

The Outsider meanwhile is a masterpiece.