Log it
Sign in to log this.
Character
Character-led, prestige, contemplative and spare.
- character-ledplot-driven
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
Who loves it, who doesn't
No profiled raters yet.
Ask the title
A yes-or-no question, answered from what people wrote here, on TMDB and on Wikipedia. Never made up.
Reviews
No reviews yet.
About the book
- Author
- Albert Camus
- First published
- 1955
- Pages
- 169
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
Where to read
Libraries first: a card gets you most books for nothing. Each opens that service’s page for this title.
Albert Camus was a French Algerian author, philosopher, and journalist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. He was a key philosopher of the 20th-century and his most famous work is the novel *L'Étranger* (*The Stranger*). In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement, which was a group opposed to some tendencies of the surrealistic movement of André Breton. Camus was the second-youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature - after Rudyard Kipling - when he became the first African-born writer to receive the award. He is the shortest-lived of any literature laureate to date, having died in an automobile accident j
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Tastebuds Other media included when they land close.
- White Nights 202661% alikeBoth character-led, contemplative, prestige.
Meditations 162652% alikeBoth character-led, contemplative, grave; this one is more warm.
The Trial 192552% alikeBoth prestige, grave, contemplative; this one is more plot-driven.
My Year of Rest and Relaxation 201851% alikeBoth contemplative, character-led, intimate; this one is more ironic.
Stoner 196549% alikeBoth contemplative, prestige, grave; this one is more meticulous.
Crime and Punishment 195648% alikeBoth prestige, earnest, contemplative; this one is more overwhelming.
Both earnest, contemplative, character-led.
Never Let Me Go 200547% alikeBoth contemplative, grave, prestige; this one is more richly built.
Nothing Personal 200972% alikeFilm · Both prestige, contemplative, grave.
Museum Hours 201268% alikeFilm · Both prestige, contemplative, character-led.