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Camus’ Meursault and Sophocles’ Antigone are both characters in literature who act in ways that require them to deliberately confront their own mortality. In both cases, their actions lead to their executions, requiring that they struggle... more

Camus’ Meursault and Sophocles’ Antigone are both characters in literature who act in ways that require them to deliberately confront their own mortality. In both cases, their actions lead to their executions, requiring that they struggle with the meaning and fear of death. ese two cases raise issues of hope, acceptance of the truth of the human condition, and the question of what di erence human action can make given the inevitability of death. I propose to examine both examples as a way of working through two possible stories of death. To set a frame, I begin with Hannah Arendt’s description of the fundamental levels of human activity and the di erent relation each activity has to death.

The basic difference between a book and a film is that: for a book, one needs to imagine the picture of the written discourse, and for a film, there is no need of imagining the discourse. Otherwise, the act of decoding the sign is the... more

The basic difference between a book and a film is that: for a book, one needs to imagine the picture of the written discourse, and for a film, there is no need of imagining the discourse. Otherwise, the act of decoding the sign is the same for both book and film. Significantly, compositional elements are same as well (e.g., intertextuality). But the media of encoding a sign makes the difference: for a book, it is mostly symbolic (e.g., word) and occasionally iconic (e.g., photo) or both; but for a film, it is chiefly iconic though symbolic sign (e.g., sound) also plays a vital. However, this writing deals with the issue of intertextuality and tries to locate intertextualities depicted by Todd Phillips in his film, Joker (2019). Intertextuality According to Julia Kristeva, intertextuality denotes the notion of a literary text sharing an interdependent relationship with all the texts written before. She proposes, 'a literary text is not an isolated phenomenon but is made up of a mosaic of quotations, and that any text is the 'absorption and transformation of another'.' She also proposes that intertextuality signifies a switch of one or numerous sign systems into another or many. Kristeva uses the word 'transposition' to describe the switch. For her, transposition is not simply the echo or projection of discourses but the transposition of discourses into one another so that signs of a discourse are overlapped with signs from another discourse/s.

Many writers had already elaborated upon matters of truth and honesty, when Albert Camus characterized Meursault, the protagonist of his best selling novel The Outsider, as an honest man who ‘refuses to lie...for the sake of truth’. At... more

Many writers had already elaborated upon matters of truth and honesty, when Albert Camus characterized Meursault, the protagonist of his best selling novel The Outsider, as an honest man who ‘refuses to lie...for the sake of truth’. At that time, Camus had an international fame in the world of literature, and he explained the novel and his absurd hero, Meursault, in a preface to an English language edition of L’Etranger. Yet, some commentators and critics found Camus’ s explanation strange and reacted against his commentaries. Chief among them is Conor Cruise O’Brien who believes that Meursault of the actual novel is not the same that Camus characterized in the explanation of the novel. O’Brien points out that Meursualt of the story lies, and he is indifferent to truth. This paper is a critical examination of O’Brien’s and other critics’ commentaries which stand for and against Camus’s own commentaries on his absurd character, Meursault, to lead us to the heart of the matter of Camu...

Número monográfico dedicado al pensamiento filosófico de Albert Camus. Cuenta con varios textos del propio Albert Camus inéditos en español ("Melville" y "Prólogo para la edición universitaria americana de L'Étranger"), así como las... more

Número monográfico dedicado al pensamiento filosófico de Albert Camus. Cuenta con varios textos del propio Albert Camus inéditos en español ("Melville" y "Prólogo para la edición universitaria americana de L'Étranger"), así como las aportaciones de varios expertos en la obra de Camus (Spiquel, Weyembergh, Morey, Firoud, Vezin, Rufat, Cuquerella, Frieyro, Herrera, Irízar...). Este trabajo pretende actualizar y debatir en torno a las cuestiones planteadas por Albert Camus, con un lenguaje y una sensibilidad cercanas a su obra.

Published in "The Asian Age," Jan 26, 2019.

Camus, en qui Sartre voyait « l'admirable conjonction d'un homme, d'une action et d'une oeuvre », incarne la figure très française de l'« intellectuel engagé », ou de ce qu'on nomme outre-­-Atlantique un « intellectuel public ». Quelque... more

Camus, en qui Sartre voyait « l'admirable conjonction d'un homme, d'une action et d'une oeuvre », incarne la figure très française de l'« intellectuel engagé », ou de ce qu'on nomme outre-­-Atlantique un « intellectuel public ». Quelque soixante-­-dix ans après la parution de l'Étranger, son oeuvre continue encore de susciter la fascination chez les lecteurs américains.

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Many writers had already elaborated upon matters of truth and honesty, when Albert Camus characterized Meursault, the protagonist of his best selling novel The Outsider, as an honest man who 'refuses to lie…for the sake of truth'.... more

Many writers had already elaborated upon matters of truth and honesty, when Albert Camus characterized Meursault, the protagonist of his best selling novel The Outsider, as an honest man who 'refuses to lie…for the sake of truth'. At that time, Camus had an international fame in the world of literature, and he explained the novel and his absurd hero, Meursault, in a preface to an English language edition of L'Etranger. Yet, some commentators and critics found Camus's explanation strange and reacted against his commentaries. Chief among them is Conor Cruise O'Brien who believes that Meursault of the actual novel is not the same that Camus characterized in the explanation of the novel. O'Brien points out that Meursualt of the story lies, and he is indifferent to truth. This paper is a critical examination of O'Brien's and other critics' commentaries which stand for and against Camus's own commentaries on his absurd character, Meursault, to lead ...

Many writers had already elaborated upon matters of truth and honesty, when Albert Camus characterized Meursault, the protagonist of his best selling novel The Outsider, as an honest man who 'refuses to lie…for the sake of truth'. At that... more

Many writers had already elaborated upon matters of truth and honesty, when Albert Camus characterized Meursault, the protagonist of his best selling novel The Outsider, as an honest man who 'refuses to lie…for the sake of truth'. At that time, Camus had an international fame in the world of literature, and he explained the novel and his absurd hero, Meursault, in a preface to an English language edition of L'Etranger. Yet, some commentators and critics found Camus's explanation strange and reacted against his commentaries. Chief among them is Conor Cruise O'Brien who believes that Meursault of the actual novel is not the same that Camus characterized in the explanation of the novel. O'Brien points out that Meursualt of the story lies, and he is indifferent to truth. This paper is a critical examination of O'Brien's and other critics' commentaries which stand for and against Camus's own commentaries on his absurd character, Meursault, to lead us to the heart of the matter of Camus's understanding of terms such as honesty and truth. In doing so, despite the fact that Camus is the creator of Meursault, his commentary on Meursault is analysed next to other critics' commentaries, and not as a dominant one.

Described as "the admirable conjunction of a man, of an action, and of a work" by Jean-Paul Sartre, Camus embodies the very French figure of the "intellectuel engagé," or public intellectual. The interest he still arouses in the United... more

Described as "the admirable conjunction of a man, of an action, and of a work" by Jean-Paul Sartre, Camus embodies the very French figure of the "intellectuel engagé," or public intellectual. The interest he still arouses in the United States reveals how much his work has been the object of enduring fascination for the American readership.