My favorite philosophical author is Albert Camus. Albert Camus (file from ancient-origins.net) There are four books that everyone should read by him: The Stranger , The Fall , The Plague , and The Myth of Sisyphus . I think one should read them in that order as well, although, if one wanted, they could read Sisyphus first; it's his only formal philosophical writing. It's really up to you to decide to read the philosophy that shapes his works first or last. These three novels explore the spectrum of the Absurd hero. The Stranger's Mersault lives without any consideration of meaning or interpretation of his actions. Jean-Baptiste of The Fall considers the implications of his actions to an extreme fault. He analyzes himself into a dizzying spell of self-loathing and malaise. He abandoned an objectively successful life for one of self-imposed torture for his perceived sins. In these first two novels Camus presents is the extremes of his Absurd hero and each of their r...
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