What About Fiction?

“Maman died today. Or yesterday, maybe, I don’t know.” So starts Albert Camus’s story of the absurd. If I could really describe this book, I honestly would, however it’s existential nature makes it quite difficult to really pin it down. Briefly described, The Stranger is a story of Meursault, a man caught up in a senseless murder, and the progression and details of his experience in the absurdity and meaningless nature of human existence.

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“One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth forever… The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to the place where he arose… The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to its circuits… All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come thither they return again.”
- Ecclesiastes 1:5

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House and Philosophy

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Another book by Michael Chabon, this detective story is set in an alternate history during which, in World War II, a temporary township is established in Sitka, Alaska to accept Jewish refugees, with the State of Israel being destroyed in 1948.  Following Detective Meyer Landsman, the tale brings the reader through a classic whodunnit story investigating the murder of a man called Emmanuel Lasker during the last weeks of his official employ by Sitka Police before reversion to American control.

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One of my favorite books of all–time from one of my favorite writers of all– time, Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay follows the coming–of–age and coming–to–America story of Joseph Kavalier, a young Jewish boy that escapes a Nazi–ravaged Europe to live with aunt and cousin, Samuel Klayman in New York City.  Thus starts an adventure tale with love, loss, Golems, and more…

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