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The Boxer and The Goal Keeper - Sartre Versus Camus (Paperback)
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The Boxer and The Goal Keeper - Sartre Versus Camus (Paperback)
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Loot Price R457
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Jean-Paul Sartre is the author of possibly the most notorious
one-liner of twentieth-century philosophy: 'Hell is other people'.
Albert Camus was The Outsider. The two men first came together in
Occupied Paris in the middle of the Second World War, and quickly
became friends, comrades, and mutual admirers. But the intellectual
honeymoon was short-lived. In 1943, with Nazis patrolling the
streets, Sartre and Camus sat in a cafe on the boulevard
Saint-Germain with Simone de Beauvoir and began a discussion about
life and love and literature that would finally tear them apart.
They ended up on opposite sides in a war of words over just about
everything: women,philosophy, politics.Their friendship culminated
in a bitter & very public feud that was described as 'the end
of a love-affair' but which never really finished. Sartre was a
boxer and a drug-addict; Camus was a goalkeeper who subscribed to a
degree-zero approach to style and ecstasy. Sartre, obsessed with
his own ugliness, took up the challenge of accumulating women;
Camus, part-Bogart, part-Samurai, was also a self-confessed Don
Juan who aspired to chastity. Sartre and Camus play out an epic
struggle between the symbolic and the savage. But what if the
friction between these two unique individuals is also the source of
our own inevitable conflicts? Martin reconstructs the intense and
antagonistic relationship that was (in Sartre's terms) 'doomed to
failure'. Weaving together the lives and ideas and writings of
Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre, he relives the existential drama
that binds them together and remixes a philosophical dialogue that
speaks to us now.
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