An Excerpt from McSweeney’s Next Issue, Josephine Rowe Illustration: Carson Murdach Do not adjust your set. What you see before you is an excerpt from the latest issue of McSweeney’s, our alluring, laid-back, westerly sister. Curiouser still, the McSweeney’s site has an excerpt from our new interview with Geoff Dyer. Have we gone mad? All those mornings, our bodies slicked with a sugary sweat. We were inexhaustible in those final few months, throwing ourselves around every chance we got. You should think on it, said Stella, who was spending half the week as Lola. That accent. A swan dive, I guess you could call it. Sometimes I want to tell you about this, but I won’t. And she had this way of swiveling her head round like an owl to talk to you as she drove, except not like an owl because the skin of her neck creased up in folds and she looked so old when that happened, though she wasn’t, not then, and Luke would lean over and say, Watch the road, Mum. In the dark of the room I find the bar fridge, take a bottle of cola from inside the door.
Camus’ Stranger Explained, Because Reading is Boring | Critical-Theory.com “The Stranger” is perhaps Albert Camus‘ most famous work. Published in 1942, it recalls the events of a man living in French Algeria after his mother dies. Not one to mourn, he starts a new love affair, makes new friends and ends up killing someone. His real crime, however, is “being a stranger to the rules of society.” In the spirit of Camus’ own brand of existentialism (though he hated the label), the main character remains thoroughly indifferent to his fate. “The Stranger” is also the subject of the song “Killing an Arab” by The Cure. Camus won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957.
New Left Review - NLR 90, November-December 2014 “Nietzsche’s Burst of Laughter,” Interview with Gilles Deleuze | Critical-Theory.com This interview, entitled “Nietzsche’s Burst of Laughter”, was published in 1967 in the French newspaper Le Nouvel Observateur on April 5. It was conducted by Guy Dumur. Posted to Reddit, the source of the translation is not cited. Deleuze discusses the release of Nietzsche’s collected works, and the problems analyzing Nietzsche’s oeuvre. “Elizabeth Forster-Nietzsche put together an extremely harmful work that privileges many Nazi interpretations,” Deleuze notes. Before writing “Anti-Oedipus” with Felix Guattari, Deleuze wrote about the history of philosophy, including “Nietzsche and Philosophy.” Deleuze continues to speak on the relevance of Nietzsche in contemporary France. Read the interview below: Dumur: How was the new edition of Nietzsche’s Complete Philosophical Works established? Deleuze: The problem was to reclassify the posthumous notes—the Nachlass—in accordance with the dates Nietzsche had written them, and to place them after the works with which they were contemporaneous.
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Albert Camus will always be the outsider – and I'm proud of that, says the writer's daughter | Books | The Observer It is a century since French Nobel prize-winning author Albert Camus was born – and more than 50 years since he died in an accident on an icy road – yet the polemics over his legacy and "mysterious" death rumble on. What his only daughter, Catherine Camus, recalls, however, is not the man shunned by Algeria, the country of his birth, as an Arab-despising colonialist, nor the slowness of the French establishment to recognise him, nor even the anti-communist who may – or may not – have been murdered by the Russians. "Was he killed by the KGB? I don't know and I don't want to know. He was Papa," she says, her voice faltering a fraction. We are sitting in the tall-ceilinged former office of Claude Gallimard, son of Gaston, founder of the French publishing company that brought Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre and André Gide to the wider world. That the display article is from an English-language newspaper is symbolic – Camus has long been afforded greater recognition and respect abroad than in France.
Marx, Engels, Lénine ThinkShop: Nietzsche on Forgetting the Past It seems that we are moving to a time when it may become quite an uncontroversial assertion to claim that there is no point in remembering the past, after all, a quick Google search is far more efficient. It could be argued even that forgetting the past completely is a healthier option than remembering – less conflict based on unforgotten slights. But Nietzsche understood that to demand of humans that they should never practice history and never attempt to remember would be asking the impossible. In his afterword to a Dutch translation of Nietzsche, Frank Ankersmit agrees that Nietzsche never planned to condemn the study of history wholeheartedly, and therefore embrace absolute forgetfulness. The Czech novelist, Milan Kundera, played with issues of remembering and forgetting in his novel The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. The book is a discursive, yet deeply perceptive analysis of life in a totalitarian state, based on Kundera’s own experiences.