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A Comparative Study on the Theme of Human Existence in the Novels of Albert Camus and F. Sionil Jose
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FPA Demeterio; Department of Filipino, De La Salle University-Manila, Philippines
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Philosophy
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Albert Camus (1913-1960), novelist, essayist, dramatist, and recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature, is esteemed as one of the finest philosophical writers of modern France. The French existentialist philosopher, Jean-Paul Sartre wrote about him as "the latest example of that long line of moralistes whose works constitute perhaps the most original element in French letters." Camus' literary legacy includes three novels, namely L'Etranger (The Stranger) of 1942, La Peste (The Plague) of 1947, and La Chute (The Fall) of 1957, and a fourth unfinished one that was posthumously published as The First Man in 1995. Camus' works both intensively and extensively explored the theme that was prevalent in the intellectual climate of the post-World War II Europe, the absurdity of human existence together with the notions of alienation and disillusionment, and speculated beyond the crushing pessimism a glimmering faith on human dignity and brotherhood. These concerns, no matter how well ingrained they may be in the European history of ideas, would prove to be too cognitively remote for a contemporary Filipino reader. Thus, there is a need to mediate Camus' literary discourses with a more familiar Filipino text.DOI = 10.3860/krit.v2i1.569Kritike Vol.2(1) 2008 p.50-67
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Faculty of Arts and Letters of University of Santo Tomas
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2008-09-08
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Peer-Reviewed Article
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application/pdf
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http://www.philjol.info/index.php/KRIT/article/view/569
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Kritike: An Online Journal of Philosophy; Vol 2, No 1 (2008); 50-67
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en
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