ah, #Camus can see the moon in the spoon.
A detailed bit of history of a typeface in the #colophon of The Possessed, a play by #Camus (adapted from the novel of the same name by #Dostoyevsky). A #Knopf publication.
#kafka via #camus #hesse #gide, #nbd
The First Man by Albert Camus
A death, Camus noted, is not absurd or meaningless because it results from chance or a mishap, but instead because we refuse to accept the very possibility of senselessness. We insist upon meaning, even when we invent or impose it. It is our confrontation with the universe, not something inherent to the universe itself, that leads to absurdity. “The absurd,” he insisted, “depends as much on man as on the world.” It occurs when one combines the world’s silence with our need for understanding.
A Russian Plot? No, a French Obsession
By ROBERT ZARETSKY
