![]() ![]() ![]() The general consensus was-and both men grudgingly admitted it-that Sartre was the better philosopher and Camus the better novelist. Sartre and Camus both wrote philosophy and novels. In other words, Sartre’s existentialism focused on other people Camus’s on the natural world and its indifference to humankind. If Sartre wrote of life as seen from a café, Camus wrote of it as seen from a beach on a hot sunny day overlooked by a house on a hill where a group of friends live. The French philosopher Gabriel Marcel wrote in The Philosophy of Existentialism that Jean-Paul “Sartre’s world is the world as seen from the terrace of a café.” The other major French existentialist writer, a very different one, was Albert Camus (1913–1960). Looking for The Stranger : Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic ![]()
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