Re: Re[2]: RARA-AVIS: Camus, Sartre, De Beauvoir. Who's
hardboiled?
RMINOT@aol.com
Fri, 28 Aug 1998 22:54:57 EDT
Kind Rara-avians,
Camus was not an existentialist: Meursault was an extremely
masculine
sensualist who saw no need to explain but who became verbose
once jailed.
Camus admired many Americans, mostly Faulkner, and the only
novel he wrote
that even comes close to being considered hardboiled is the
brilliant La Chute
(The Fall), a nasty send-up of those existentialists he had
fallen out with.
Interestingly enough it wasSimone de Beauvoir of all people
who, in 1939,
suggested to Sartre, who was struggling with several drafts of
La Nausee, that
he use plotting techniques and style from American hardboiled
detective
novels. So Sartre used them to enliven and popularize his
philosophy
(existentialism, taken largely from Kierkegaard).
My PC has been down. Loved all 38 messages. Will respond to
other excellent
points you made later.
Reeves
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