![]() ![]() His biggest attempt at a philosophical work, L’Homme révolté, met with such harsh criticism on its publication in 1951 that he never again attempted a full philosophical work. Instead these later writings rotate around ‘ideas’, which are really more like symbols, complexes of meaning and emotion, with as much psychological or sociological as logical content.įor example, the early idea of the Absurd, which he developed in the 1930s/early 1940s drops away and is replaced by the more wide-ranging, richer idea of ‘exile’. ‘Exile’ can have several meanings:ġ. ![]() (page 49)Ĭamus’s later writings are more literary than logical. The deep, clear water, the hot sun, the girls, the physical life – there was no other form of happiness in this country. ![]()
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