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Is all literature philosophy?
I’m reading The Myth of Sysiphus by Camus which is an outrightly philosophical book (or so I think). His other stories, like The Stranger also trigger questions on existence and the world. But more recently, books by leading authors that are novels (Sally Rooneys of the world) are more of stories? In my mind, I wonder, is there a difference between the push of STORYTELLING (the value of singular experiences, creation of an imaginable life, also storytelling is a word overused in advertising etc- a creation of a lived experience) vs an INQUIRY of an experience. For example the book Girl,Woman, Other is more TELLING us how it was. I also wonder, is this STORYTELLING related to capitalism and the western idea of individualism.
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I’m reading The Myth of Sysiphus by Camus which is an outrightly philosophical book (or so I think). His other stories, like The Stranger also trigger questions on existence and the world. But more recently, books by leading authors that are novels (Sally Rooneys of the world) are more of stories? In my mind, I wonder, is there a difference between the push of STORYTELLING (the value of singular experiences, creation of an imaginable life, also storytelling is a word overused in advertising etc- a creation of a lived experience) vs an INQUIRY of an experience. For example the book Girl,Woman, Other is more TELLING us how it was. I also wonder, is this STORYTELLING related to capitalism and the western idea of individualism.
#entertainment
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