Sofia Chatzipetrou
Cahiers ERTA, Numéro 6 Nature morte, 2014, pp. 57 - 69
https://doi.org/10.4467/23538953CE.14.013.3420This essay aims to highlight the representations of ambivalent nature in Albert Camus’ work. Key theme within the author’s literary and philosophical approach, nature has spread into all his writings. Great symbol of the world’s beauty, nature echoes its absurdity at the same time. Therefore, it shapes a contradictory background in which a human being should live; through silent images describing namely the sun, the sky, the sea and the stone, Camus faces up nature’s death as an occasion to get into the solitude of existence. From that point of view, and throughout his entire work, nature is certainly not dead; the object of this paper is to examine how natural imagery is actually portraying the absurd connection between the man and the world.
Sofia Chatzipetrou
Cahiers ERTA, Numéro 25, 2021, pp. 57 - 79
https://doi.org/10.4467/23538953CE.20.023.13547This essay aims to analyze the poetics of the soundscape in Albert Camus’ work, based in the notions of happiness and unhappiness. Our purpose will be to define the characteristics of the symbolism of auditory perception, which are elaborated on the double configuration between happiness and unhappiness. The fact that the symbolic universe of Camus outlines a total sensory experience does no longer need to be demonstrated. Starting from his first lyrical writings to the Notebooks, his writing appeals arouses all the senses. Through a comparative study of examples relating to happiness and unhappiness and while underlining the predominant place of silence in Camus’ aesthetics, we will come off to the conclusion that Camus’s work constitutes a real kind of field recording.