![]() Sartre solved the problem of joining art and philosophy in his best work, 'Nausea,' and Camus did so in several of his books" (Mitgang 146). As American novelist Walker Percy stated, "The French have something that is rare… - a philosophical conviction with novelistic art…The combination is usually fatal, but the French seem to achieve it. Illustrating that worldview through the novel was the primary function of Camus. This impasse was what constituted the absurdist worldview. The worldview was absurdist - an outgrowth of the demise of old world philosophy: on the one hand was man's desire for meaning, and on the other hand was the overwhelming weight of empirical data coupled with Kantian metaphysics - the synthesis of which was man's inability to know anything objectively or find the meaning he desired. ![]() The French philosophical novel of the 20th century was a self-contained worldview, best described by Camus in The Myth of Sisyphus. An Analysis of Social Representation in Camus' the Plague ![]()
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