Sublime

So one can wonder whether Camus’s project isn’t governed—or at least stalked—by something like Augustine’s vision, a world that ought to have meaning, where evil is vanquished, where tragedy doesn’t have the last word, even if Camus concludes that’s not true.

The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.

the problem and the solution comes afterward.

I want to know whether I can live with what I know and with that alone.

a persistent theme that has a deep Augustinian resonance weaves its way throughout Camus’s corpus. It could be named in different ways: exile, alienation, stranger-hood.