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Lyrical and Critical Essays by Albert Camus
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it was amazing
bookshelves: subspecie-aeternitatis

And i finished it. It took me 4 month, with excruating on and off reading in between writing my never ending thesis. Camus essay to me, will always will be sublime, poetic, represent compelling resilient that i can always turn to. I remember vaguely in my lonely day when i'm first start college, i first get ahold of The Stranger in my freshman year of college. It blew my mind as soon i finished it. There many thing that i didn't understand first, but as life goes on, Camus writing come accros to me once again, in my 21st years of age.

It start with the beauty of the passage "In the midst of winter, i found there was, within me, an invisible summer" and his art come back to me many years after i vaguely understand, and finished The Stranger. And the immerse feeling for founding the ray of light vividly represented in book, a right book in desperate hour of need. That is how i discovered Camus book once again.

Different than Hemingway, in which i found raw, simple, even to the point parsimonious strenght againts suffering, or Subagio, whose poem in my own languange, i can search for warm, and consolation, where i can mummur his brutal and philoshopical verse again and again. But in Camus, i see a combination of both, completed but not replace two writer that i held in high esteem, become my main reason to falling in love in literature.
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Reading Progress

September 17, 2019 – Shelved
September 17, 2019 – Shelved as: to-read
May 26, 2020 – Started Reading
May 27, 2020 –
page 20
5.21%
June 18, 2020 –
page 50
13.02%
June 26, 2020 –
page 85
22.14%
July 7, 2020 –
page 150
39.06% "In the dim attempt, and vagueness of trying to understand camus writing in my so-so understanding of english, and In the cycle of banality and dread that always come as i writing my thesis, the beauty, wit, and poignant essay of camus, always keep me going. It always fresh and new, but also seems familiar as well.(The Death in The Soul is my favorite so far, remind me of my solo travel to Madiun and Solo)."
July 15, 2020 –
page 200
52.08%
August 7, 2020 –
page 213
55.47% "It was always will be melancholic, deep, with so much strenght and resilience with each passed sentence. I know that i can always turn to him, in the most mundane and hopelessness of situation"
August 25, 2020 –
page 250
65.1% "Almost there"
September 15, 2020 –
page 300
78.13% "My thesis are progessing as the journey for completing this book advancing as well. Slow and steady, with the most banality thinking, and pandemic reach its 6 month. In each and every essay, it was hard, but exhilirating neverthelles. As always hang in there"
September 18, 2020 – Finished Reading
October 4, 2020 – Shelved as: subspecie-aeternitatis

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