Brilliant writer, intelligent, insightful and talented at the art of words, but after reading all of his fiction novels (I don’t have the patience for essays), I gotta say I don’t think he ever experienced pure, agonizing, suicidal pain himself. And that’s why his philosophy fails on me.
In a nutshell, his recurring philosophy can be summed up like this:
Life is absurd, essentially meaningless, but we should rebel against the meaningless and create meaning.
Sure, that’s fine. But not when you’re dealing with an agony so deep and maddening that you can’t fucking think straight. To use the metaphor of the 9/11 jumper: those faced with the […]